ENTITLEMENT PERCEPTIONS

[ucdailoi]

It seems to me that people have lost sight of caring for and respecting one another. It's obvious across the board. It's been my experience that you will get knocked over in the stampede in a sales rush, or in the rush to get the last seat in the only aircraft leaving before a storm. I have been barrelled by big women who thought their needs were greater, and their size worked to their advantage.

Anyway.... This is about camping so I will mount my favourite hobby horse and give you my opinion.

I suspect that most people have had the experience or actually inflicted themselves on someone without thinking about the long term consequences of pulling out the generator.

GENERATORS.....Cheap and available to stupid people who have no regard for their surroundings.

The whole family is packed into a van, taken to some magnificent and possibly popular camp spot for a camping or bush experience.... Dad and mum set up the camp, the kids are running around yelling, the dog is going berserk and all is well, then out comes the 2KVA gen set for lights and TV......

I think most of us have seen that theme or variations to that theme and had our enjoyment curtailed if not destroyed because some people are incapable or too stupid to plan ahead for power needs and the comfort of others.

What bought me to the point today is this article I read.

Mary Oliver On Mornings
Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose body of work is largely filled with imagery of the natural world -- cats, opossums crossing the street, sunflowers and black oaks in the sunshine. Her most recent collection is entitled "A Thousand Mornings"...Mornings with the notebook are part of a regular ritual for Oliver, though. "Most mornings I'm up to see the sun, and that rising of the light moves me very much, and I'm used to thinking and feeling in words, so it sort of just happens." Oliver shares more reflections and a few of her latest poems in this NPR interview.
Oliver says her work has become more spiritual over the years, growing from her love of the poets who came before her and the natural world — but she feels a great sorrow over humanity's lack of care for that world. "The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails," she says.
"And this is happening to the world," Oliver continues, "and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean?"

I wonder how many campers are in tune with their environment sufficiently enough to grasp what I am saying rather than being offended and dismissing the observations.

Start the New Year with the camping plan to make no impact on the environment or your neighbours. It may mean leaving the dog at home or adding more batteries and solar panels for inevitable power use.

That way we all get to enjoy the sound of the Magpies, the water rushing over the rocks, the utter peace and wildlife in our bush camps.

[T1 Terry]

An interesting insight, sadly humans will alway force their surrounding to adapt to their behaviour, even the walk through the bush disturbs the natural balance, the track you made was not there originally so the balance has changed. If other people or animals choose to follow the track you made the track will become well worn and with it a redistributions of seeds and possibly weeds into an area where they did not exist before. Does this bring in different feeders and therefore different predators?
Everything we do has an effect, all we can do is try to minimise that effect.

The generator subject is an old war zone, if they must be used, the owner who is gaining the benefit should also be the person most disturbed by it, to move the generator away from the site to improve their enjoyment level is nothing short of arrogance on their part, I see no reason why any body should put up with another persons arrogance, they have no more right to be there than anyone else.

T1 Terry

[BruceS]

Yes, in an ideal world ............

We all are different and we all have our wants and needs. What makes someone happy might make someone else sad.

Lovely post and we'll leave it as a statement with no replies to follow.

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