A society without poets is a sterile and desolate place. Thus, I often read Bruce Bisset's pieces.
In his column on October 13 he says "Even the No 8 wire ingenuity factor is taking a hit these days because of the alleged urban/rural divide - a divide almost entirely in the minds of farmers, arising only because they are reluctant to face the fact the industrial farming model they've bought into is a land (and water) killer."
For a poet this is a remarkably long sentence possibly reflecting a pay per word incentive and impressively links farming ingenuity, urban/rural divides and the evils of industrial farming into one thought. A performance even crazy and erratic Byron and Pushkin would be proud of.
I'm not sure about his claim that there is a rural/urban divide in the minds of farmers but given his penchant for calling us environmental terrorists, land and water killers and all round villains of the first degree then he may have the satisfaction that he is himself responsible for encouraging some of these rabid thoughts.
We live in a provincial economy here where we are interdependent upon each other and talk of rural/urban divides is an excellent example of divide and conquer. To paraphrase an old musical; the cocky and the townie should be friends.