Reply #191: Your first two sentences!

[Gregorian]

First I have to apologize for being totally out of it. I didn't sleep due to Americans in cars, last night. For some reason, probably some stinking full moon party, or something, there was a nearly nonstop stream of cars and associated noise for several hours in the early morning hours. It's not unrelated to your post.

We are pigs! Americans are really pissing me off. Especially after watching an independent tv station that had some coverage on a Belgian bike race. It was mostly men in their 80's who were riding very old bikes. 200kms! And the food they had on the roadsides. And the sentiment. As towns, they value their DIRT roads. They have to fight off the asphalt upgrading. It was beautiful. People who don't want growth. People who value beauty.

Your two first sentences are how I've lived my whole life. People who lived through the Depression know. My father would go out to the garage every morning, where the hot water heater is, rather than run hot water an extra fifty feet to his bathroom inside. My friend's mother would reuse paper towels, by drying them.


You addressed some things that average Americans are oblivious to. The process. What it takes to get "stuff" to us. And then what happens when it goes away.

I'm sorry, but I'm actually having to type this through what is a mild and early migraine. I didn't read the rest of your post. But it looks marvelous. I'm having my own menopause. A male, single, frustrated guy who should have grown up in Belgium or Italy, or any place other than where the gluttons of energy consume their greed in full view.

There is very little that gives me the degree of happiness than seeing someone who gets the process of the modern society. Someone who sees how it works. Because there is very little else that has us cornered in our present political position more than this very thing.

Ouch. My head. And I apologize since I have a feeling this thread is more about the other subject and less about what I've just sort of posted. :)