Again, regarding Edge Lane the “authorities” talk about “decanting” residents. That hardly sounds like there is the slightest respect for the relationships people have developed with their homes, their gardens, the birds that they put out food for in their gardens, their neighbours, their shops. In fact there is no respect whatsoever by the people elected and paid to serve us, and there is no appreciation of either the vital importance of relationships, or the vital importance of free will / choice. So I very much hope that I can influence those who apparently have taken it upon themselves to consider that they are worthy to have power over the rest of us. That isn’t co-ordinating the “body” for the benefit of that whole body; this has been supposedly about “housing market renewal” and other such ill-considered concepts.
To fall in love, and make love is one thing. To be outnumbered by resources citizens contributed as taxes for the various services and infrastructure we need to be co-ordinated then “constrained” against one’s will and forced to have sex, for the benefit of someone else is quite another. On the whole my anger has fuelled my determination, anger largely that we are told by the “authorities” we wanted it. That certainly adds insult to injury. To distinguish between the one and the other scientifically is not all that easy, especially if the process is well-lubricated (by fiscal incentives). But the difference between choosing to move and having a Compulsory Purchase Order dumped on you (particularly when the “development” is in every possible way a bad idea, except for the “profit” motive of a handful of individuals, financial mainly, “consultants” and certain lawyers, on £2million a year) is entirely analogous to rape. The outcome for government by “taking over” responsibility for child care, education, employment, food supply, policing, health care and the rest, is that the dignity and autonomy of citizens is reduced, and what was a man becomes a sheep (usually an angry sheep) which can then so easily be led to the slaughterhouse. We have found that taking young male elephants from their families, even if they are quite grown up, and placing them elsewhere with a different group (for the sake of extending the gene pool) causes delinquent behaviour. It isn’t only our species who are subject to such “injury” as having our natural order (intrinsic relationships) torn apart.
Imagine what it does to people to rip apart natural relationships, pretend such relationships didn’t exist, or if they did they didn’t matter, and oh yes we see delinquent behaviour. In this industrialised world where the normal life pattern is go to school, then get a job (of some sort) the man we evolved to be, who sought his own food, made his own shelter, taught his own children, is at a total loss. Rip a man away from the made-by-another-man home, and the job he does, (not too interesting maybe), so that he is paid by someone with power over him, upon whom he is dependent, and the natural instincts, particularly of the man who has never developed any skills other than what he needed to do in order to get paid, express themselves in destructive ways. There is an inborn anger and resentment, frustration at the boredom of this superimposed order of civilisation with all the “nothingness” this new reality offers, and he (or she) fills in the gulf with “distractions”. Now that so many have some reasonable grasp of education, enough to read a newspaper or manipulate the controls on a TV, few look to what used to be the one educated person within the community, the vicar of the church for guidance. People make up their own minds, don’t want to be preached at, especially when the preacher is obviously every bit as fallible / confused as the rest of us. In fact sometimes it comes across that the clergy are even more confused that are the laity.
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