6 May, 2006

I had the unfortunate experience of driving in this city this week and all it really did was reinforce my dislike for the clumsiness of cars and the overwhelming feeling that something big is about to give in society. It’s no shock that we are seeing price increases beyond incomes and that certain industries are simply selling vapour to vacuous people and it should come as no shock that our society has become very demanding, arguably unreasonably so, and that something somewhere will give under the pressure. Back to the driving experience though – I found myself at one point with a rather large, angry, somewhat overweight man pulled up beside me with his head sticking out his window yelling abuse at me. From what I understood I had changed lanes in front of him and this had irritated him in some way… at least I think that was it. I tried to take a photo of him with my camera phone while he was in full swing (he looked pretty absurd all red and puffy like that) but that only made him drive off (with his head still out the window I might add). Now, I might be wrong but that doesn’t seem like the behaviour of a stable and relaxed individual…but then, I don’t seem to understand the current rules in this country anymore.

On a similar note I was talking to my Mum recently and she mentioned that three, very old Ngaio trees had been cut down to make way for development in a section near them (they live in the coastal rural world). This sort of thing upsets me as it’s just another example of that needless waste that leads greed fueled destruction that is so prevalent now. I can’t understand people who see themselves as separate from the World. My biggest concern about where things are headed is how other people will react. If they all decide to get angry, red, puffy and try to maintain their current levels of lifestyle I’m likely to get taken down with them. Not something I’m overly keen on.

Back at school with some slightly reworked approaches to teaching.