Nature abhors a vacuum — doesn’t everyone?
There’s always the urge to fill in the blank space; even when you’re not requested to “insert image/comment/URL here.”
But what constitutes a “blank space”?
Incomers define our rural fields and meadows as “vacant space” because they have not been defined and demarked as to usage. To them, these “blank spaces” are frightening; objects without labels —opportunities without a profit.
There is no neighborliness: instead, we’re now a “community,” and our community needs, running and bike trails, a dog park, sidewalks, a “town center,” a high-tax school system . . . a suburban pastiche of county club aspirations and sit-com sensibilities.
Forcing on the original inhabitants things that they don’t want; at a price they can’t afford.
The natives either die off, are taxed out, or squeezed into low-level jobs and marginalized living.
Pure Urban Colonialism.