97. Who Said Life Ain't What it Used to Be?

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That’s what our villagers wanted to prove when they came up with “L’an dea fan” which is our dialect for “The Year of Hunger” referring to the First World War years when there was nothing to eat.


These villagers flew the world war one airplanes, used the horse and carts and utensils of those days then got themselves dressed in the way they did at the beginning of the last century… though it did seem to me rather odd to see, nice well fed, chubby faces run around in long black skirts, dark kerchiefs and shawls looking as if they were starving…
The only people starving nowadays are the forgotten ones, the ones trampled on and exploited among themselves or by the super world powers… they are the only hungry ones in this world.

If you hunger in this society it is because you are either too bone lazy to work or you are hooked on drugs! In a welfare society like ours, it is nobody’s fault but your own if you don’t have your daily bread because we have never had it so good and this demonstration in the village is the proof of that.






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Comments

lavel said…
Eva, you're a life saver! I love that post. I'll tell you later when I read it fully, okay?
Eva Ulian said…
You really have got me excited!
Marit Meredith said…
Eva, there are still poor people in the western world - a whole lot of children in the UK, for instance, living below the 'breadline'. Not everyone who is poor is so of their own doing. Nothing is ever as clearcut as that, although it's no comparison to the first World War years.
Eva Ulian said…
I agree with you Anna, but I am trying to highlighten the fact that there are people "stealing" precious resources from those who really need it by making themselves incapacitated to work through drugs or putting themselves on "wlfare" simply because they can't be bothered to find work or not willing to take up a job below their station. The are loads of "spungers" out there!

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