2185.The exploit in guerilla gardening ending, not with a bang, but a sense of resignation by the employee sent to remove the garden.
As David Loftus details here, he was on the scene at 8 AM on Monday, and by 8:15 AM, the garden was gone, removed by an employee of City Center Parking/Downtown Development Group that comported themselves with something resembling a sense of honor.
The plot was apparently planted by some college sociology class that was trying to make a point in some way somehow. How they were going to do that by planting a boulevard-strip garden and stepping back to let whatever happen, happen kind of escapes me, but remember, I'm a prole. Sometimes I just don't "get" these sorts of things.
David took a few pictures and handled it with utmost aplomb.
Why do it, even though the removeal of the garden was essentially a fait accompli? Well, as David says at the end of his article:
Capisce, my friends? This is kind of what it could mean to be an actual human.
Your next responses to your own reality are left as an exercise for the reader.
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As David Loftus details here, he was on the scene at 8 AM on Monday, and by 8:15 AM, the garden was gone, removed by an employee of City Center Parking/Downtown Development Group that comported themselves with something resembling a sense of honor.
The plot was apparently planted by some college sociology class that was trying to make a point in some way somehow. How they were going to do that by planting a boulevard-strip garden and stepping back to let whatever happen, happen kind of escapes me, but remember, I'm a prole. Sometimes I just don't "get" these sorts of things.
David took a few pictures and handled it with utmost aplomb.
Why do it, even though the removeal of the garden was essentially a fait accompli? Well, as David says at the end of his article:
To paraphrase Tertullian's line about faith, I acted because it was futile.
In a world full of powerful interests hoping to make us all into consumers and spectators, it's essential to act and speak.
Otherwise, you're not learning and growing; you're just opening your mouth for someone else's spoons.
Capisce, my friends? This is kind of what it could mean to be an actual human.
Your next responses to your own reality are left as an exercise for the reader.
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