STREET DOGS: Lifestyle
On those weekends, the river is disquieted from morning to night by people resting from their work
On those weekends, the river is disquieted from morning to night by people resting from their work. This resting involves travelling at great speed, first on the road and then on the river. The people are in an emergency to relax. They long for the peace and quiet of the great outdoors. Their eyes are hungry for the scenes of nature. They go very fast in their boats. They play their radios loud enough to hear above the noise of their motors. They look neither left nor right. They don’t slow down. I watch and I wonder and I think of the old slavery, and of the way the economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The economy does not take people’s freedom by force … it buys their freedom, pays for it and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. — American author Wendell Berry If you will have a model for your living, take neither the stars, for they fly wit...
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