Showing posts with label NPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPS. Show all posts

Monday, October 21, 2013

Trust NPS?

I am not going out of my mind. I did notice a post on Hot Air about trusting the National Park Service ever again after the shutdown theater, the title and lead-in posed as a question easily answered with, "no." 

That is what I wrote. Two people got in before me. Checked later and there were some 35 responses, some long, 100% in agreement "no way will they trust them again." That surprised me. I thought I was being unusually uncharacteristically closed-mined about this, turns out it's just a regular attitude held by anyone who noticed what happened. 

Now the post is gone. It was on top. Sometimes they move down. I do not see it there on Hot Air now. 

Gosh, I hope it comes back. I wanted to see how far it would go. Did it get too ugly? 

For me it goes like this [Smoky the Bear ---> fascist ] Just like that. One step. One single event and wham my whole attitude changed toward the entire national parks system generally. And I don't care who it is, National Park Service, National Park Police, National Park Administration, National Park Overseers whatever, don't confuse me with tidy distinctions. They're all lumped together and they're all bad news even if there happen to nice ones in there caught up in the theater beyond their control. I honestly do not care if I ever make it to the Grand Canyon, or to Yellowstone, or to Mt. Rushmore anymore. I'll read about those things and avoid fascist fiefdoms, even Estes that opened quickly enough, none of them are acceptable now. They're all off limits to me. And if I end up there by mistake, say, a series of unfortunate events, it happens, I certainly will have the creeps the whole time through knowing I'm in the presence of weak-minded stormtroopers. My attitude will not change. It cannot, because they cannot. I will hold this soured attitude until the day I die. Best for me not to think about national parks and leave all those splendid things for others. 

So. What do you think? 

First I'll check to see if the post came back. Nope. Not in "more green room" either. See? That there is fascism. It's everywhere.