Wednesday 19 March 2014

What Went Wrong?

Pondering more on the Blacka pasture area desecration it's worth taking a step back and asking how on earth this comes about.

I'm sure if someone had said to me many years ago that this was a SSSI and a Nature Reserve that had been managed as such for over ten years and was in receipt of a substantial public subsidy I would have said  "pull the other one". So what's happened in the time between to account for it? Is it the result of culture change? A sign of dumbing down? A perverse and scary paradigm shift? A symptom of demoralised and confused people losing their way? The abandonment of standards and norms that were once accepted unquestioned? The abdication of leadership and responsibility by those who should speak out but now wearily exit shaking heads, drive off home in their Audis and settle down with something alcoholic in front of the box?

The question remains about wilful blindness and it's a terrifying prospect that people are so defeated in spirit that they are fearful of responding to what their senses must be telling them. What else could people turn their backs on if they can't see this?

Not for the first time, God help us all.

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