My ggggg*1000 grandfather, a eukaryote, really knew how to live. He didn't have hands - he had to DREAM and use his MIND to make snowmen. Kids today with their

My ggggg*1000 grandfather, a eukaryote, really knew how to live. He didn't have hands - he had to DREAM and use his MIND to make snowmen. Kids today with their "hands" are desensitized to the needed mental work of imagining how a snowman would look. I'm not saying this argument automatically wins. But I think the two sides need to define terms. What's "real" and "authentic" for one generation was a huge stretch for another, and will be rote/boring for another. Is there a coherent dividing point? I personally don't think so; I would like to hear an attempted definition, though. Real = Struggling to manage your horse to plow the fields so you and your family doesn't starve? Being a master horseman and ploughman? Breeding sturdier horses and selling them so you're rich, and everyone can easily plow? Replacing horses with engines+plows, with heated cabins, which activates way more land, to grow more food for the world? Running a retro amish-style farm on the weekend where you go back to using real horses to plow again? ^^^^ Where does "real/genuine" come in and then leave in that sequence? And who are you to say where other people should spend their time within it?