The Neighbours

This is a very religious area. There are the orthodox catholic ones if I may say. They belong to what I would call a sect. They are totally against contraception. So on RR 8 the average family has more than 10 kids. This is quite a change for a guy who's been having its shares of feminist talks and lessons thoughout his life! I neither condemn nor condoned such an approach and I am not ready to say that this is their choice. I happen to think that they have not been exposed to alternatives so they are not in to make a choice. My own father comes from a family of 14 kids, two of which died in early in their lives. Not everybody around here is in this category There is this woman up my house who is alone and has been so for the last 25 years in a house she bought then. The area has changed quite dramatically over the years. There use to be a school in here. I mean we are in the bush! I met two men so far who have been attending the school. They both were born here. One is 73 and living in the suburb of Montreal and the other, 63, has retired from teaching art at a high school in Montreal. He is also a town councillor The town has 780 people. City Hall at this time is said to be extreme right. One reason for saying so is that as soon as they discovered someone was HIV positive they wanted to get rid of him (maybe through an order in council, which would have been quite stupid). Anyhow this city councillor I met is rather leftist which is quite something around here. We are not that many around here who could pretend to be more leftists than rightists. I might be the least religious person around here but that does not mean I am an atheist. I just don't go for any dogma and analyse whatever I am being told. I have my own grid and it ain't fitting much with many people around here although I am ready to confront them anytime But it is useless with dogmatic people. It's a waste of time. They don't even see their own contradictions... And as would say George Dubya: Those who are against us are evil. So the dialogue is limited.