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- From: trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna)
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing.
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:30:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.234122.7421@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >
- >The man is idolized as a free spirit. In an increasingly crowded world
- >where open space and "true freedom" are become a premium, Abbey represents
- >an ideal from an earlier time. He represents a free will and choice in
- >a world full of "Grand Unified Theories." Wayne could easily say more;
-
- Who could resist an invitation like that?
-
- I never read Abbey until a rec.backcountry reader once accused me
- of copying him. On that basis, I decided he must be worth reading,
- and indeed I enjoyed Desert Solitaire immensely. It was a great
- comfort and joy to discover a comrad in social and mental "illness."
- Christian sentiments asside, the loss of a snake is a tragedy. The
- loss of a human is insignificant, or possibly a blessing. (This all
- assumes that neither the snake nor the human are personal friends.)
- There is nothing humane about crowding and squalor.
-
- After a stint in the wilderness, I once sat in a Glenwood Springs
- Kentucky Fried Chicken. The people coming and going were like unwanted
- conquerors or oppressors who didn't belong, like me, there only to rape
- and steal what suits their immediate purposes, oblivious, as all
- oppressors, to the welfare of the oppressed. The land sat silent.
-
- We tend to marvel at the Japanese. Most Japanese do not like their life
- style. Look to Tokyo to see where we're headed. When your family
- of four lives in a 300 square foot apartment, and comutes two hours one
- way to work, perhaps you're values will shift. Probably not, though;
- We tend to accept what's in front of us as good and proper. Abbey will
- be a decaying voice from a past long forgetten. Or will he?
-
- I read in the Denver Post this morning that Denver, which covered
- less than a hundred square miles in the '60s, now covers five hundred
- square miles. Similar statistics were given for Colorado Springs,
- Pueblo, Fort Collins, etc.
- --
-
- -Wayne Trzyna
- trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU
-