Cleanliness is not hygiene
I have abhorrence for this taming of nature; creation of geometrical shape, and orderliness.
I like my world natural.
When I look at the future of safety, plastic and concrete I am filled with horror.
I would rather have the microbes, bugs and untrimmed trees.
I do not like having my grass mown in lines, my car washed or my behaviour shaped into expected forms.
I prefer messy jungle to ploughed field.
I want a world teeming with life, danger and wilderness.
I see a future of sterility, safety and prisons.
We are building our own prisons.
That was how I felt in 1970 and I still feel it now.
We are building our own prisons – brick by brick.
Cleanliness is not hygiene
With your strange false hygiene
Your absurdity of cleanliness
You are busy creating a world
As sterile
As the blankness of your mind.
Opher 1970