Fences...

[/quote]He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. ~Robert Frost[/quote]From my blog: http://albooinkruse.blogspot.com/2014/10/fences.htmlThat's what bugs me about Hippie Hollow, or Bluebonnet, or any of the other Resorts in Texas... the fences. I walked in Hippie Hollow from Fence to Fence, and I wondered, what are we keeping out? Or is it that they are keeping us in? Same with Bluebonnet... I've not been there, yet, but I can see the neatly lined fence from Google Earth, the line that delineates one property from another. They have to put fences up to keep our something from their nothing, as Grady Nutt said. The only difference between the people living on one side of the fence, or the other, is that they are wearing clothes, and we are not. Do they keep us out because we would harm their land or people? No, I don't think so. The fences are there to keep property values from sinking because there's "nudists" on the other side of it. They are like playpen walls, which keep a baby from getting out of a set space. It's for safety, they say, there's dangerous things out there. What happens if the baby finds the scissors? But is it more that they don't want to have to worry about the baby constantly, and would rather have time to themselves than allow the baby freedom? Now, this is not to say we are babies, but metaphorically, we have to stay in our little confines so they don't have to worry about us. Our offensive nakedness, as it were. What they don't know is that, putting a fence around Hippie Hollow keeps them out of Eden, not us out of the rest of the world, if we put garments on. Looking around the rest of Lake Travis, there's tons of paths, trails, and no one that would be around for miles. What if we wanted to take a nude hike up to the top of the hills, what would be the harm? It's for our safety... they would say... they put up fences so that no one would walk the paths and get bit by a snake. Well... it's our lives... if we want to go walking into a den of vipers, then let us. Is it such that we must sign wavers to take down legal walls? Or to walk their paths would be offensive to someone that's not there? Taking nudism out of the picture, I find when I'm walking anywhere, that so many fences shut me out of places I want to go. I'm not going to harm anyone, and I take my safety as my responsibility, if I go and get hurt, that's my fault. In this ideal world, there would be no fences, and walkers could go anywhere they wanted. Let us walk upon this world wherever our feet take us. It will take us farther than any car could, and see the beauty around us, instead of it whizzing by past our windows. [url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-miFNgIxtH7g/VDQAZUDRZOI/AAAAAAAAA1c/abH2QFntXTQ/s1600/fence.jpg][/url]It seems to me that the fences are not just upon the land, but also in the minds of the others that would construct them. We should be intelligent enough to look at the world around us without prefabricated ideas constricting us to only one viewpoint. Let the other ideas come, and we can look at them without a wall, and reject them if they don't match up to Reason and Thought. In this instance, the ideas of nudism become much like other "lifestyle philosophies" that are in the news so much now. Harmless ideas that only allow people to live as they want to, leaving the rest of the world untouched. But this would never do to those who build walls. Why give anyone a place to live as they want to, even a small park on the side of a lake, when the ideas are clearly wrong and have no place in civil, normal society. In one thing we both agree... the walls aren't necessary. But for two different reasons. They would rather not have different ideas around at all, and we would rather live harmlessly aside them, keeping to ourselves. Nudism isn't Ebola... it's not something to eradicate, to blockade. But people don't understand that, and so they build their fences, high and strong, even as they remain week. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors." ~Robert Frost[/quote]