Dangers of becoming complacent

[Pete Grey]

(16 July 2023, 08:50)Sekwo Wrote:

(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.

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.

Sekwo I do not understand your definition of “modern”.

Iron pots and knives ?, woven clothing ?, 3000 year old “technology”.

I think most here would not even call the Victorian era modern with all of their innovation.

In the 1950s my grandmothers house had no electricity and was lit by gas, the “wireless” was powered by an “accumulator” which was recharged at the local hardware shop.

In our street we had electricity, coal fire of course, we had the only house with a car, no fridge or washing machine, not even running water, no bathroom, there was only one house in the street with a television, 9in b/w.

A party yard with a shared wash-house, no lighting, laundry done in a copper boiler heated by firewood, the only tap in the yard, an outside toilet.

“Modern” is the 1970s on. Modern is every house with electricity, a bathroom, central heating, double glazing etc.