larkmark wrote:
This happened in most part because of a change in attitudes by landowners. Some will say it is because of littering or driving on fields or poaching and that may be true to an extent. But in my experience it was mostly about as I said, a change in attitude which I don't think is related to bad actions necessarily. Some may call it selfishness or greed or the me generation or people just getting very concerned about owning and having exclusive and private property or maybe mistrust and fearful ideas about others. When the farms around here went up for sale the new people posted.Some were big corporate type outfits and some were more urban types who came from out of our area. I will not judge it but it is a different world view. It is not the neighborly old ways that I grew up with. Those good old days are gone.
Believe it or not, I actually agree with a lot of what you wrote, to a point.
Yes, new landowners tend to be quicker to post than existing landowners. Some buy land for the exclusive purpose of herd management or hunting just themselves. Others are "city folk" who are moving to the country but can't leave their city ways behind (for anybody wondering, I have never lived in a city, or even a big town).
And yes, views are changing, and society in general is changing, and very little of it seems to be for the better. Every day, you read or watch news stories about people acting like a fool on airplanes, in restaurants, on the road, and any number of different places, where common courtesy (yes, there it is again), has seemed to just disappear over the last couple decades. Population increases causing more crowding, the me attitude, people losing all social skills because everything is text and Facebook (some people act shocked, and get the deer in the headlights look when you actually open your mouth and speak to them, as they have totally forgotten how to interact with another living being), whatever.
Yes, those days are gone, unfortunately.
More and more land gets posted every year, while very little gets unposted. Think about what you could've done differently to change that.
Some here criticize me for my attitude and for finally posting. My final response is that you (generically speaking) could've done something that takes only a few minutes, and costs you absolutely nothing, in exchange for the opportunity to use, for free, something that cost somebody else hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm not just talking about me, I'm talking in broad terms about many landowners. That seems to be a pretty lopsided equation, but apparently it's too much for some, and I'm the bad guy.