This is an example of why there is so much opposition to SWT.
Where to start? They clutter up the site with their laminated notices. The notices themselves are really stuff more likely to be seen in an office but they haven’t the imagination to see that. The content of the notices also appals. What has the smiling child got to do with the invitation to come along and wantonly destroy trees? Is this part of the same mindset that recruits a marketing manager? These are people who care nothing for the site and its natural beauty only for their jobs in offices 7 miles away.
“Come along” they say “and help protect internationally rare heathland.... etc”. This is nonsense and they know it. Does anyone with half a brain left fall for this? How do you protect something by destruction of natural beauty? Without vigorous protests these vandals will continue to encourage people to think that ‘scrub bashing’ is actually a good thing! In such a way dictators tell their peoples that ‘War is Peace’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength’.
Where to start? They clutter up the site with their laminated notices. The notices themselves are really stuff more likely to be seen in an office but they haven’t the imagination to see that. The content of the notices also appals. What has the smiling child got to do with the invitation to come along and wantonly destroy trees? Is this part of the same mindset that recruits a marketing manager? These are people who care nothing for the site and its natural beauty only for their jobs in offices 7 miles away.
“Come along” they say “and help protect internationally rare heathland.... etc”. This is nonsense and they know it. Does anyone with half a brain left fall for this? How do you protect something by destruction of natural beauty? Without vigorous protests these vandals will continue to encourage people to think that ‘scrub bashing’ is actually a good thing! In such a way dictators tell their peoples that ‘War is Peace’ and ‘Ignorance is Strength’.
2 comments:
You may not be surprised to learn that we have similar, if not quite so flashy, notices on Epsom Common. Real pain as far as I am concerned. I blog it from time to time, when it makes me cross enough!
Thanks Jim, I've seen your blog and I like it. As a retired civil servant you understand these things well I'm sure. We are under siege here from people anxious to justify their existence and their job. But we do have the odd moment of beauty when we can forget the buggers.
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