Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Over the life of the net, virtually EVERY wave of arrivals has tried
> to pull up the ladder behind them as they look in horror as the
> _next_ wave of arrivals apparently is spoiling it all...
Human history, online and off. When I first arrived in California from
Texas, I had the honor of guidance and advice from one who was living in
Santa Monica. How to meld with the beach culture in the sixties. These
are some sorts here, she said, and there are others there, and here's
how you behave around them all.
She had been there for two months from Odessa.
I have seen communities up in arms over Development. Oh, they are
bringing the 'dozers right past my house, the poor deer who feed in our
orchard, whatever is to become of them? Their house is a subdivision
carved above other neighborhoods in the hills of El Paso, Dannville,
anywhere, and the developers are quite naturally still lookin' for a
home, lots of them, at premium prices, and that means further up the
hillside, and those who slashed and burned for their vantage point are
environmentalists now, resenting someone up the hill with a more
prominent view.
Where I live now, there are constant squeals of protest about all the
traffic and noise and our quaint little environment is converting into a
sick polluted metropolis - which they know well, because they just
arrived last year in a motorhome with their six kids from LA.
Hey, buddies, can you spare a thousand or so members from your polluted
lists?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Bowden)
"The reason you can never go home again
is because you can never leave." - Timocrates
