Theres something really dystopian about fences.
I went outside to go check on the mock strawberries and saw that yet another whole chunk of land has been fenced off by our neighbors. Our own land had been fenced off by our old neighbors when I was a child, a chain fence with barbed wire at the top to prevent people climbing in, combining the yard of both properties to keep chickens, geese and some other animals but they're long gone now and the fence stayed up. It became rather important to keep up due to robberies and burglaries, heck someone cut it open recently and we all went into a panic. The existence of that fence always made me feel bad, I used to enjoy taking a walk through the open forest, grazing the goats and sheep. Now mom removes any plants she believes are weeds.
Then the bus station was built and for some reason, they couldn't connect the public bathroom to the sewer system, so they decided to drain it into a ditch in the forest, turning that entire area into a foul smelling wasteland, the smells of which would sometimes reach our house. It took alot of complaints to make them change that, and even when they finally did, the land never fully recovered.
Then a few years later our neighbors adjacent to us set up a fence too. Removing all the wild plants in favor of the monoculture lawn and white plastic flamingos. But I took solace in the fact that at least the wild boars and other critters could cross our properties through the gap.
But now, the neighbors inbetween our houses have built their own fence. The gap, the little breathing room, is gone. The forest is essentially gone.
There also used to be a huge park in front of our house. It had fireflies, these flower blooms during spring that looked straight from a fantasy land, the ponds that would gather there after the rain reflected the mountains nearby perfectly, grass that felt heavenly to lie on. But again, the bus station was built, and a road exclusively for the bus was paved, cutting right through the landscape in the middle of the park, removing the trees and the bushes in favor of this bus that is super cheap but nobody uses anyway due to increasing car dependency and egos. Why did they have to cut open our park just for a bus? A road that gets fucked up every few years anyway because it's so poorly made. The entire project was by a corrupt politician trying to gain votes so it's no surprise, and the sides of the park were also cut even smaller when roads were paved to make way for more cars until what remained were just some small pathetic greenbelts. Roads act as yet more fences; exclusively built for vehicles. I just can't believe they killed the fireflies for this.
More and more areas are being fenced up for these giant luxury apartment skyscrapers with these gigantic parking lots. My heart aches every time we go for a drive and these big blocks of concrete that very few of us would ever be able to afford obscure our view of the mountains.
I used to enjoy driving to my sister's house where the mountains were much more visible and there was a vast grassy landscape. Emphasis on was, because they are now flattening the hills and mountains to make way for more cookie cutter houses with tall fences. Gated communities that are proudly advertised as gated communities and luxurious. The corrupt and all powerful military building their own communities and housing with giant concrete walls, golf courts, security checks everywhere to make sure you're related to the military. centres of fucking elitism and nepotism.
Fences, fences, fences everywhere. Liminal, uninviting spaces. Sometimes I wish a powerful storm would knock them all down.
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