A Change in the Wind - a photo on Flickriver

My mini theme here today was actually discussed on the TV news last night - timely, but I had planned these uploads long before that. It concerns the increased urbanisation of Tasmania, one of the most rural states in Australia.

It is projected that within the next few years population will fall up to 15% in most rural areas, particularly in the north west of the island state. Already the effects are being felt. Local municipalities struggling to be able to afford essential services for communites; local football teams unable to survive because they can no longer attract enough players (actually East Devonport folded just yesterday, and their most famous player in history was one of the greatest to ever play Australian football, the late Daryl Baldock). We've known for a long time about the flight of young people from rural areas. They go to the cities for education and work and almost never return.

There's a pattern to all this that finds its origins in the industrial revolution - when people moved off the land that their families had worked for centuries to find work in grubby mills in the rapidly growing industrial cities (William Blake's "Dark Satanic Mills"). Sickness was often the result.

Isn't it interesting (and this is certainly true of Australia) that the rural areas have largely been untouched by the pandemic. In rural areas people are physically distanced, but they are most definitely NOT socially distanced. There's a big difference, and it's why I ask myself why any sane person (without the desire for mammon) would want to live in a big city.

I dream of a counter-revolution where we rely less on modern technology and communications to rediscover our true humanity in ordinary life on the land. Then maybe we would not have so many abandoned buildings like this and a real change would be in the wind. But we are fighting against a longstanding plan to move people into the large cities. It provides better economies of scale, and a greater ability to monitor people's behaviour, so the powers that be are not going to relent.

Only strong minded individuals can make the difference, by telling these "progressives" enough is enough. Even if we fail, as the Luddites did when they tried to smash the looms in those dark satanic mills, we will have chosen the path to recapturing true human values in the face of the growing Machine Age. And never forget that the great scientist Steven Hawking warned before he died, "If we let the machines take over they will destroy us."
theconversation.com/stephen-hawking-warned-about-the-peri...

BBC interview with Steven Hawking: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLVyWBDTfo&feature=emb_logo

Taken on: February 16, 2021

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