Hey, what’s with all of the used snowmobiles for sale parked along Wisconsin’s roads? As forlorn as unclaimed “Gard” signs. Some look old and outdated, but others are shiny and sharklike.
Victims of global warming? But wasn’t there lots of snow last year? Hot new models? But new snowmobile sales are down. Victims of bad economy? The first things to go when your job has been “downsized?” How about….boredom? Is riding on a rattling trail anywhere near as fun as a good video game? Sleek machines and ads portray an image that reality can’t meet. You just can’t go as fast on a trail as they show in an ad.
There is an important lesson in considering a viable long term economy in the northwoods. There will be pressure to make the northwoods a racing ground (or battleground) to "compete" with the world of videogaming. But what about "counterprogramming?" The northwoods as a "non-virtual space", to watch and listen to nature.
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