Sat 30 Oct 2010
This summer we went bike touring for two weeks in Southern Ontario, between the three great lakes, Ontario, Erie and Huron. Obviously, we biked for ourselves, but in the same time we tried to dedicate the entire tour, of ~750km, to the victims of child abuse, religion and states.
This was a credit card tour, as we slept in B&Bs or hotels (when no B&Bs were available) and most of the time we didn’t prepare our own food, but went to restaurants or pubs.
After discussing with our hosts about our tour and about our views, we’ve used to make them an offer that sounded like this: We can pay you in cash and we add an extra $20 for the room, if you don’t cut us a receipt and if you don’t declare anything to the tax agency/government, but you keep all this money for yourself. The reactions we got to this offer were priceless. As the rooms were between $90 - $140, usually they were looking to a gain of 100%, as the government’s taxing ~40% of the income.
What was even more interesting to us was not to hear for a single time that this isn’t correct because all those money should be use for pensions, education, poor people or hospitals. Not a single time we heard the words “illegal” or “unjust” in regards to our offer. A nice statistics to have would be… how many of those people will go to vote next time, to support the nanny state and the “social contract”? Of course, it’s not hard to guess… probably as many as went last time
During the tour we had the chance to talk to three couples of teachers, all of them over 50 years old. Actually one of the men isn’t a teacher, but a school bus driver. With each couple we approached the violent behavior in children subject, and we used to learn out that “even if we banned all the gun toys in the kindergarten, the children invented weapons out of anything“, “it’s government’s fault the children are so violent, because it doesn’t strictly regulate the violent video games and movies“, “there’s no other way to impose yourself in front of the children, but to show them who the boss is“.
No matter which kind of city we were in, small or big, most of the people don’t want to be told they are in charge of their lives. It’s not them who take the decisions… it’s god, or jesus, or the government, or the mayor, or the mother, or the father, or the children, or the wife, or the neighbor, or the weather… anybody else but themselves.
During this tour we met many enjoyable people and we found wonderful places were we would like to live later on. Here are some images, enjoy:








