I HAD A DREAM - actually a nightmare!
Last night I dreamed that I was walking along a beautiful beach here on Ambergris Caye with two women. I glanced over my right shoulder and saw a big sign that said WAL*MART. I said "Oh my god, they are going to build a Wal*Mar here! One of the women said "Going to?" I looked over my left shoulder and there was the biggest Wal*Mart I have ever seen.
When I mentioned this to my yard man this morning he said "Good! More jobs for us." Where upon I regaled him with stories about geese and golden eggs (he had never heard that one).
So what triggered this? I have been composing a response to Chris Alnatt's editorial about street lights from the bridge to Journey's End. I have to ask Chris why he moved up here recently? And now that he's here why does he want to change the way all the rest of us live? And, at the same time we are being disregarding, asked to finance this frigging foolish destruction of our environment.
I know Chris and know him to be a rather good business man. However, does he see the north end of the island like a goose who lays golden eggs? Does his desire to sell property taint his otherwise decent perspective?
Let's look at "PROGRESS." First a bridge, then four-wheel drive vehicles, taxis, large construction equipment, soon street lights - - -tada! WAL*MART! When San Pedro residents can drive to Mexico (their dream) what will the area they drive through look like?
Their homes will not only have burglar bars, they will have beautiful fences and walls. They won't have to put up with waving at their neighbors as they speed by in their automobiles. Heck they probably won't even know the names of their neighbors. No more dogs wandering through their yard. Their beloved pets will be CONTROLLED and kept in the house beside them.
No more dog poop on the beach - heck there may not even be a beach as everyone has built a big sea wall to keep their property from eroding. That also enables everyone to extend their property out into the sea. MORE IS BETTER - especially if it is MINE is the mantra.
Then everyone will need jobs at Wal*Mat, Home Depot, Starbucks, Taco Bell because the reef will be DEAD! The fish will be gone so they will be happy to have Burger King Hamburgers. They will no longer need to eat ceviche, lobster, conch fritters, and fish and chips. Now they will be able to eat great processed foods like the RICH PEOPLE on TV do!
Those who recognized golden eggs when they saw them have bought up all the swamps (actually wet lands) and filled them and sold the shoddily built structures to other greedy fearful people. At last they are safe and secure inside their private fortresses - heck it looks just like _____________, __ (fill in the blank - city and state - that you escaped from to come live in paradise.)
AND - you won't have to put up with those stinking tourists - they quit coming
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