(15 July 2023, 15:15)bigpaul Wrote: just because people live the modern life dosent mean its the right way to live, its just what we are used to.
you go out to work so you get paid so you can pay bills, what if you didnt have to?
a modern life is NOT a natural life.
given the choice between a modern lifestyle and a simple life I know which I would choose and it wouldnt be the former.
I have never seen anyone who has a "simple lifestyle" who isn't in many ways reliant on the modern world.
I look at these programs of people living in Alaska ... they all have iron pots and guns and knife ... and most have petrol driving vehicles or boats. They wear clothes from manufactured materials, even if they make their own, they use manufactured needles and threads.
About 20 years ago I went with a group on a tour of some "simple" and "off grid" houses. Those houses were only possible because of some very modern & advanced technology. All that modern technology needed for their "simple" lifestyle disappears after a major calamity. All we have left, is either what we can scrounge from what is left of this modern world, or really simple iron-age technology which doesn't need the complex materials.
If you've grown up in the UK in the iron-age from iron-age parents, with iron-age cattle and crops, you can easily survive in the UK in the iron-age ... except about half of children did not. But adults can. But if you suddenly cut off all access to modern technology and materials, the only people who have a good chance of surviving would be a few cattle farmers in isolated areas, who regularly get cut off and so who never lost all the skills of living independently. Even they would rapidly lose all power, within a few years, they would be constantly weaving to make even enough clothes for one simple set of clothes for each person. And few of them would ever learn how to smelt iron ... because all the good ores were used up long ago in the UK leaving the stuff that is incredibly difficult to smelt.
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