Wilderness Not Wreckage: Cultural and Suburban Landscapes

What are they doing? These people, who I trust, have changed everything. They have moved furniture, dessimated the garden (and I spend more time there than anyone) and created an olfactory nightmare. I inhale the sickly stench of acrid bodies and fettid clothing.

I am essentially conservative, although I have been complimented previously on how well I deal with moving home and the associated stress.

We are where we live. Are we where we live? Are you Australian, Melbournian, Brunswickian, or one who lives in your house by your values? You can more easily share with people with shared experiences, from the same culture, but who is to say national culture is more entire of itself than popular culture or alternative culture? I wonder about the European Project- some countries are more Euro-federalist than others- a group of individuals identified as a nation whose character means that they want to be consumed into a larger entity. I suppose some critic has articulated this clearly. But what will make me feel better as I stalk around the wilting stubble and spent debris?