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By © Anton Benjamins, 2019a

Dear Greta Thunberg !

I am responding to your scream of ”How dare you!” that rang aound the world in 2019, and earned you a Time magazine cover in the United States of which country I am a city-zen. As it happens, I am also a citizen of Latvia, which is a country just across the Baltic Sea from your home country Sweden. To further set the perspective, I am 86 years old, which makes for a 70 year wide age gap between us.

Perhaps this also makes for a similar gap in our understanding of how matters in the world really stand.

You will note that i have spelled (above) the word citizen in two ways, re:’city-zen’ and ‘citizen’. I differentiate between these two spellings, because, I under stand them in two ways.

For example, if you wish to buy an apartment in the  region of Valmiera, near which I live, the banks will not give you a loan for such a purchase—unless you plan to live no further than 5 km from the city of Valmiera. This is an obvious prejudice in favor of city-zens and against plain Latvian citizens living further out in the countryside.

Why should this be so?

The answer is a simple one: the political powers that be have bought into the notion that the future of our Civilization belongs to the cities. Indeed, this is a prejudice noted as far back as the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, and as recently as the holomodor that resulted from Stalin’s campaign against the peasants of the Ukraine. That campaign was waged—pardon my conclusion—on behalf of city-zens (then called ‘workers’) against the peasants.

To properly analyze the causes and development of the prejudice against the countryside (which includes peasants, trees, wildlife, rivers, lakes, and swamps) requires extensive scholarly studies. Nevertheless, we may implicitly note that you, Greta (along with the sentimentalist movement known as ‘Greens’), by being for the most part a movement of city dwellers, are unlikely to stretch your mind far enough to realizē that the belittling and destruction of the countryside is the result of its factorization to encourage the growth of the scourges of life and climate—the city and its city-zens.

Anyway, because this is not a happy note on which to end the year 2019, let me conclude by wishing you a more perceptive 2020 in which you will include in your scream not only deplorable countryside dwellers like me, but criminally misinformed self-righteous city-zens like yourself.

More to follow,