If people want to cook, they can cook. There's plenty of raw ingredients at the supermarket, and no shortage of cookery TV programs, books, magazines and websit

If people want to cook, they can cook. There's plenty of raw ingredients at the supermarket, and no shortage of cookery TV programs, books, magazines and websites. Similarly, you can find a great deal of resources on all sorts of activities. Want to catch a fish? Learn a musical instrument? Write a novel? At no point in the whole of human history has it been easier to learn a new skill. And it's not like these cookery programs are put on to an empty audience. If no-one was buying all these books and magazines and watching these TV programs, they'd stop being produced. So it's not that people aren't doing things; it's that they are being selective about what they do, because modern life allows them to be selective. People are free to buy the things they don't want to spend time making, and instead use their time to do the things they want to do.