In this episode of „Country Roads”, we take a different route — there is a road block on the usual way, work going on at the windmills and the bridge. The grass has grown a lot this week, the first blossoms are out, the trees are getting greener. The moon last night was so bright it was like a small sun; we were both outside at half past one, and it makes for good pictures. On the road it is busy: sun, Easter coming, the last shopping before the holidays, and fuel at a price neither of us has paid before.
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.
📺 Also available on Rutube and Youtube:
https://rutube.ru/video/72e415179bb7c3248d87fc71bd5f5e12/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2RNIgMeik
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