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We could also all go back to wearing grass skirts and writing each other messages on tree bark with rocks and spending 18 hours a day foraging for food, 7 days
by notliketherest 10y ago
We could also all go back to wearing grass skirts and writing each other messages on tree bark with rocks and spending 18 hours a day foraging for food, 7 days a week 365 days a year. Technology and modern conveniences free us to a better life.
- yosamino 10y agoThat's not quite the point though. All that foraging that you describe comes with the advantage of being self-reliant and completely in charge of your life. While in that life you have to be in charge, you also get to be in charge. The point is not to throw all of technology out the window, but to recognize that some technologies have made certain areas of our lives so easy, that we maybe overindulge in them, and stopped learning how to be self-reliant any more. I like to call it "over-civilization". It's been an issue since someone first stuck a stick in a hole to get out a grub, but just because it's old, it doesn't mean it's not valid anymore.