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Sunday, October 16, 2005
CAVE (the Prequel)
The story begins….in retrospect.
Sorry I missed this last Sunday. But it was the distaff’s birthday weekend and I spent the day pretty much fixing meals to please her, and my, palettes. Brunch of eggs benedict, bacon, Rocky Ford cantaloupe, champagne, home-made hand-tossed pizza for dinner. In other words, my priorities were alligned differently that day.
Today is different. I’m focusing on Steve Henson’s article about CAVE people. I’ve already posted regarding his column in today’s Pueblo Chieftain. Now, I’ve done some background research on his initial column on the matter as of last week. And, after reading it, I’m not surprised he was innundated with responses that contradicted his expressed opinion. And as for his comment about how he thinks he ‘touched a nerve’, I’d say, “Yes. And a rather sore and exacerbated one at that.” I’d recommend he pay heed.
In last weeks installment of this matter, Steve is suggesting that anyone who complains about any company’s plans to make money in Pueblo is a CAVE-dweller. I mean it. He says that they stand in the way of “progress’ in Pueblo. This is absurd. There’s more to life, especially a good one, than merely making money. But maybe Steve forgot his Sunday School lessons regarding that. Just because someone offers you a pile of money doesn’t mean the quality of life in your community is going to improve.
Take a look at Love Canal. I’ll bet the contractors who built that fiasco made a bundle of money. So did the people who were heavily invested in Enron, before things fell apart. The point of fact being that there is more to life than making a pile of money. And the CAVE people, contrary to what Steve would have us believe, are more interested in life than in money. And life can be ‘emotional’, contrary to what Steve might think. Indeed, many people get VERY ‘emotional’ about life. I know of people…people this town hails as living here….who would gladly have give up their life for the quality of life. Does the term “Home of Heroes” ring any bells?
The point here being that CAVE, as an acronym can mean more than one thing. Steve would like us to believe that it means Citizens Against Virtually Everything. As I pointed out in an earlier thread, it can mean Citizens Against Venal Expansion. Then again, it can also mean Corporations—Avaricious, Venal, Expansionistic.
As some English judge put it….
They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. — Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1628
Let us hope that we can see the truth of this statement and make our decision on the ‘vision’ of what Pueblo, in 50 years, should be. Will it be a properous place where people live and work in a reasonable degree of harmony and joy? Or will it more likely resemble Gidi Prime of that speculative future fiction classic, Dune? Something akin to hell on earth and dominated by the proverbial totalitarian/authoritarian ‘king o the hell’.