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From: Roy P (no email)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2007 - 11:27:55 EDT
On Sunday 08 April 2007 01:59, Ken James wrote:
> And who will be the first to volunteer to fully live that way if there
> are other choices? Would you let your kid die because Penicillen is to
> high tech? Or would you want to work 10-12 hours a day in a hot bug
> infested field trying to grow corn just to keep from starving to death?
This is, by some people's standards, very attractive.
There is a prevailing belief that living on a farm in a traditional way of
life would be horrible. It's simply not the case.
From a social standard it seems it is preferable to the all too common
suburban life of today. Instead of people driving into their attached garage
and sitting in front of their large TV or sitting in their back yards divided
from the world with a fence. People are required to live and work together,
to rely on each other. it creates a much stronger social structure that has a
lot less of the social and health ills you currently see.
Check out this interesting book, written by a MIT grad who went an lived a
traditional lifestyle for a year and a half, as part of a study project.
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Flipping-Switch-Technology/dp/0060570040
I just finished it and it definitely give food for thought.
> Or would you want your wife to have a 70% chance of dying in childbirth?
> BTW, the average survival time of a "Mountian Man" in the 1700's was
> about five years, he starved, froze, got shot, got an infection, or was
> eaten by a bear before too long.
> None of these are good things in terms of survival of humans.
That is not really valid since it's an all or nothing scenario.
Select application of technology and knowledge would be possible when living a
traditional lifestyle.
You'd still have modern medicine. You'd still have modern knowledge.
Physical work with a purpose is preferable to going to a gym.
If anything there would a lot less people with heart problems.
Cheers,
Roy Pennington
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