# hating strimmers and strimming is sane if like researcher henry swanson one exists not lives in overpriced rented shoebox flat boiling and freezing depending on the weather and yet must still face the pollution noise and stupidity of strimming all summer long that is whether or not the tiny patch of grass in front of the flat is burnt brown to heck is half a cm long and covered in a local karen's dog mess they never clean up whether or not the hedgerows need trimming again and again every few weeks with no rain and zero growth if you still work from home desperately trying to write andor make art (artwork: art-as-work) and are repeatedly greeted yet again with the dulcet tones of petrol strimmers then you clearly realise the true unliving heck that is cosmically pointless uk summer what sounds like leatherface giving a ted talk about gardening for a solid hour something ugly murmurs in the background of such an awful racket something distinctly fascistic about an irrational hatred of unchecked nature the notion in brain dead bureaucracy that if it's already been allotted in the annual budget for the fiscal calendar year then the money has to be spent and the job - however pointless and cosmically useless - must be completed no matter how inconvenient and repugnant not only if the job is pointless but precisely because the job is pointless in this case standing outside henry swanson's lousy block of flats for two hours in the burning summer sum petrol strimming 1cm off a dead bush the labor power used to produce useless services and all the technological infrastructure needed to sustain it is an example of capitalism at default work that is the only thing it produces is excess as waste not merely excess waste but rather waste is its only output waste is not just a byproduct of capitalism but in fact its only product the loud obnoxious excess and unnecessary petrol strimming of the poor underpaid baskets sweating in the heat and humidity repeatedly coming back to trim hedges and borders whether they need it or not is precisely the existentially absurd point since strimmers often use long lengths of rapidly spinning plastic wire to cut plant material strimming also literally spreads microplastics everywhere which kill bees not exactly an idea to champion on a rare planet where plants need pollinating by insects capitalism is insanity on a global scale and much like those massive chainsaws in the amazon jungle killing vast swatches of the planet's green lungs just so burger companies can grow cattle for cancer meat - the humble endlandian strimmer is the horrible symbolic sound of a batshed system chewing all life and growth to deff capitalism is itself the excess it continually sheds out; not merely an excess of garbage but that excess itself is garbage // republic of bob