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It’s easy to forget, or just not realise, how insanely far we have come as a species, and all the shoulders we’re standing on. It makes me very, very grateful
by jonplackett 6y ago
It’s easy to forget, or just not realise, how insanely far we have come as a species, and all the shoulders we’re standing on.
It makes me very, very grateful for where we are now, but also feel really, really spoilt.
- aemerson_ 6y agoReading this actually makes me think the opposite: That we basically do the exact same processes but with the production obfuscated away and at a larger scale. When you peel back the layers of garment manufacture today it's basically the same processes and materials as this series lays out.
- ordu 6y agoI believe, that you both think the very same idea just using different words.
- jonplackett 6y agoWhat I basically mean is, I’m really glad I don’t have to spend my time and effort making clothes from scratch or smelting iron, or farming wheat. Or any of the many tasks that led up to making that even possible. I’m really glad someone else has figured out how to do the many, many extremely time consuming steps (like domesticating sheep and wheat and flax) so that we can now enjoy those benefits. But I also then feel like, shit, I really ought to be doing something for the world. They literally worked ALL this out for me. I barely have anything I need to do to survive and live an easy life, compared to back then at least.