Let me posit that there are three kinds of people
in the world: the happy farmers, the
happily farmed, and those who hate the farm.
Of course there will be degrees of each, those
are just the pure types. In fact most of the farmed are unhappy with aspects of
the farm, they just don't realize that the farm itself is the problem. For all
I know it may be even worse for the farmers, who are under a lot of stress to
be exemplars of the farming lifestyle. The lower classes (those getting farmed
to the hilt) at least don't have to pretend to themselves that they like it.
And too, most farmers have some farmer over THEM. So, lack of autonomy is
pervasive.
Now, this has been going on for a while. The
result is that the Happy Farmers (those of the pure type, who
"embrace" farming) and the most Happily Farmed, are creating two new
species ("specieses"?) Viz, the Morlocks and the Eloi (as H.G. Wells
predicted in his classic novel "The Time Machine.")* Bit by bit they are getting rid of everyone
who doesn't like the Farm. Breeding them out of existence. Have a problem with
the Farm? How uncivilized of you. Git. Scat. (But don't go live off the land: we took care of that back when we enclosed
the Commons.)
They are in a big hurry, the Farmers. People just
aren't adjusting to the farm well enough! They will need drugs, licit and
illicit. They will need experts to advise them, they will need to be "educated"
(brainwashed to love the farm.) The new models coming up might even need to be
genetically engineered, to speed the whole process along. It's for their own
good, really. How sad would they be if they did not adjust to the farm?
Boo-hoo. We shed a tear for the unhappily farmed.
What to do? Yes, that is the question. There are
always Marx Bros. movies, I suppose, while we drift on the undertow of the
coming "new world order" (ooh, scary!) That is some compensation, I
suppose. (Of course that's the idea--- entertain yourselves... don't worry
about the farm... We'll take care of the farm... go back to sleep... good
baby...) Perhaps too we can try to seek out those of like mind, commiserate,
and even help to open the eyes of those who perhaps thus far only see the farm
"through a glass darkly." How elegiac it all is! I tell you what.
*Okay, slight simplification, but that's the gist
of it.
Copyright 2014 Tim Rocks (I invoke my farm
priveleges on this good shite...)
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