Blog X

Well, I'd hoped to have a better X word to spring my blog from, but having just had total strangers from local contractors come onto our property and cut a heap of our favourite newly purchased forest down, and having had a youngster from the neighbour's family tell us 'No, this is our land', and having tested the databases of the local council and the local surveyors to reaffirm that this happened on our land, not theirs, and having presented said neighbours with that emphatic proof, to be treated with an offhand 'maybe', gives me rise to affirm that even in the European Union, with their 2 million population's president about to be president of the EU, 'xenophobia' must also be expanded to include fear or distrust of new or strange spaces in mental scapes that these xenophobes are now confronting. There are people who cannot think beyond what they've always thought was right; the flat earth society; jehova's witnesses; Exxon Corporation; I disqualify George W,  as he shows no signs of having vital energy between his ears at all..... but to hear someone offer a platitude like 'Telekom have the right to come on your property every few years and cut down any trees that are close to their precious line' is the proverbial red rag to me, and my partner, unable to find an ally in this awful affair, is becoming ill with the stress of not knowing who will attack our tranquil space next?  I can go over to Zagreb and give someone a modest amount of money and my neighbours will cease to exist. Switch on TV and that happens all the time, from any country you choose, the silent reality is more of these mysterious events happen and rest unsolved than are famously thrown up on TV as more, good, effective detection results in more arrests.... I'd happily swap the life of one of our rednecks for that lovely 37 year old tree anytime; but you can't get them back, whereas the rednecks continue to reproduce and enlarge relentlessly.... Relentless. Why can't these fuckers relent just, say, for one extra day a week? Could we pass a law for the relentless to relent? I fear they are as hooked into this behaviour as any wino, junkie or child molester, and inability to stop is perhaps a greater opportunity to turn this dross into fertiliser, and would not hurt the world as we pass 6.5 billion in our population. Who needs 'em? Nuff said.