Have you ever looked at the old signposts that point the directions to the next village?
Milestones were at ground level but signposts were high on a tall post.
In the old days when the rural poor walked everywhere, they might sit on the mile stone but the signpost required an education in order to read it.
It would remain a mystery to an illiterate villager: those able to read it would be far more wealthy and so the height of the sign would be at a convenient level for an educated man seated on his horse, to read
In our world when practically everyone can read, the "signs of the times" are still way above the heads.of the vast majority who do not trouble their heads with news items that "does me head in". as they sit rotting on their sofas
The signs of trouble are every where
The urgent greed for transport fuel has
- emptied massive oilwells,
- started oil wars and
- destroyed entire landcapes of forest to plant oil palms.
Transport is biting into the food acres where food animals once fed.
