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Something we keep coming back to: every moment is new. This is not a day in the life that repeats, and it is not a film you can wind back and play again. If you believe you can simply repeat it, you are in real trouble. You have to recognise the moment while it is there.

Then the road gets serious. Somebody overtakes into a curve where you cannot possibly see what is coming, with our hazard lights on, and simply does not care. Taking a risk with your own life is one thing; dragging everyone else into it is another. What you see in the mirror is already the past — and fast enough only ever means here and now. People who drive like that seem very far away from life. What idea of life do they even have?

And that is the question we end up with: how good it is to have a life, and to know it. It is bad to have one and not know what it is there for. What you make of it is the precious part. Everybody has some idea of something to do; nobody is without one, because everybody moves — you cannot not move. The question is only whether what you make of it is useful, practical, and not harmful to others.

In between, the Icelandic horses at the roadside, still in their winter blankets: living creatures with a heart for their own life. They do horse things — and it would do us good to do the things human beings are meant to do. Respect, living together, and a question of culture, even on a small dusty road. And good ol’ lady, seventy-two years old, relaxing to drive, a proper procedure, nothing like a modern car. As for the weather: it is not a waiter you can order from, and wanting to command it is a bad idea from the start.

From this ride: trees much greener than last week, wildflowers coming up, Icelandic horses in winter blankets, blue sky with cloud shadows, dust on the small roads, 8 miles to the gallon, good ol’ lady is 72 years old.

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Then the talk goes deep and stays hard for most of the ride. We ask what is left for the kids if we change nothing, and what they are being shown in the meantime. We ask why a community does not react with more urgency to what is done to children. Life is real, not a game.

We talk about the republic: people in office have to look at things the way ordinary people do — use their own eyes, see what is actually going on, and then do the job so that it fits a republic. And the question is what a country is run for at all — a glorious economy that fills pockets, or a population that can keep the country going. Automation is replacing people and we are doing a brilliant job at it. A republic for machines works fine; it simply does not need human beings. If people go along with that, they are replacing themselves.

We say plainly that a government can do nothing without our support, and passivity is support. Nobody’s house was built by a man with a white beard in the sky; you built it yourself. One of us talked with a man from an Arab country who was crippled as a child and built his own house anyway — and it is exactly those people who are losing support now.

On religion: as a private practice, fine, live with it. Dictated over a society, no. It is not a matter for a nation, and no reason for the human race to slaughter itself over a war of opinions and beliefs. The Middle Ages showed where that goes. Pray in love, not in hate and not in war. Remember Easter.

And on money: a universal means of payment that makes things easier. What is happening instead is that it gets collected on one side while the other side has none — and then the country does not run anymore. Cooperation is not an idea, it is how nature works; we would never have got this far without it.

From this ride: back roads to avoid traffic, wind wheels all standing still, trees changed since last week, more butterflies, fewer birds than back in the day, the woods damn dry.

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Then we hit a road works that blocks a crossing so badly that you cannot even turn around, with no room to let anyone pass. It is not about that one barrier. It is about an administration that we as a community tolerate, and that makes things impractical on purpose, to make life hard for people. Cut people off in small things and in big ones. Do not bring the fuel price down, because people are supposed to stop driving — and then nobody can run a business, nobody can supply anything. Plan the traffic so that it stands still and never look at what comes out of it. No respect, no liberty, no justice, no living, and no future for the kids.

After that it gets quiet again, and better. Because whatever is in the way, that is simply what we have to take care of, and the rest of the time we run our own lives. And there is something worth holding on to: we are part of nature on this earth and a product of it — not of Mars, not of Venus. We were born here, this is our home, and there is room enough here for all the creatures. We do not have to run away to places that do not belong to us and to which we do not belong. Someone will always offer you a ticket off the planet; we are not interested. There are so many good places on this one that you can spend a whole life finding them. There is no better place than this.

From this ride: different direction today, blocked crossing at the road works, trees greener than last week, farmers’ ground prepared, potatoes this year, blue sky the whole way.

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Then it turns serious. The woods around here look bad — cleared out for economic reasons, for space and for power. We talk about a commission in the EU parliament on turning nature into tradable units; a commission writes a report, and we do not trust where that goes, because economic interests come first. Without farmers there is no food, and without the trades and the service people nothing runs either. People are being run like machines, and we are a natural product, not an industrial one — we had a mother and a father, and we are here to make a living and a well-being, not to function.

We say it plainly: the government is only us. We live in a republic, the power is with the people, and if we want it different we have to do it with our own hands. Before we break down, we better break the system down. Left idea, right idea, and then nothing to say to each other — that is the trap, because we are all human beings, close to each other genetically, and different only as individuals. Even after everything the pandemic showed us, people still refuse to talk. Easter is a good time to change that.

And there is a difference between a natural end and one you create yourself. You have a choice in between, and creating your end earlier is not the way to go — we are here to live. All of this is visible without glasses; anyone can see it, hear it, smell it. The kids depend on us, and nobody shows them how it works. So the question we end on: what is our own idea of making a living — not the economic one, not the industrial one, not the government one?

From this ride: detour because of a road block, bright moon at half past one, battery test 4–5 minutes shorter, first blossoms.

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From this ride: no power steering, no synchronized gearbox, snow, sun and rain in one day, first green on grass and trees.

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From this ride: 2.35:1, 60 fps, loop recording every 3 min, tankful 170 €.

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