Community, attitude and respect. The three things that set us apart from the rest. Sure enough, there are shades of grey in between, but you can't generalise.
But we are where we are, and there's no going back.
Thats a good post. A big difference between 'us' and them is they often don't take themselves too seriously, many here do
Are you serious?? How many of "them" take themselves, their carreers, their footbasllteam, their tv-shows, their possessions and their social status not serious? hmm?
'They' may talk about the latest fashion, here people seriously talked about "Combat Sandals" last week, how ludicrous is that.
I agree. Even on this forum there are people who take certain things, which others find ludicrous, serious.
This is only a hobby, its nothing special, its not a way of life or religion, just a bunch of folk sleeping out from time to time (some here don't even do that).
WRONG! For me, and increasingly for my family too, it IS a way of life and I know there are many, who feel the same way.
So lets not go taking the pee out of Jo Public, what the heck makes you special? Nothing.
Well, there you're wrong again.
I am me. I am unique, because there's no one like me. Does that make me special? I do think so, yes
But a bit simplistic in some areas, if you don't mind me saying so!
One comment said "Simple.... look around you........ and see what is happening to mankind and the world he lives in." An in what I presumed is a derogatory manner.
That one comment came from me. What I meant by it, was the way we are destroying our enviroment, leech the planet from it's natural resources without caring for those who come after us. The way we are living today is, according to me, best compared to an infestation of locusts, except from the fact that locusts don't polute the land they rain down on...
So you don't want to be cured of cancer, or TB, or gangrene, or any of the thousands of other ailments modern medicine can rectify? You're comfortable with very high infant mortality rates that used to be the case? You object to being able to get on a plane and be in the Brazilian rainforest in 36 hours? Or even owning and occasionally driving a Series III Landie?
True, we can be cured from a small number of cancers. You might ask yourself were these cancers originate from, to begin with.
The high childmortalityrate made sure that the healthy, strong ones survived. A very natural selectionprocess. I will spare you my visions on mortalityrates, overpopulation and the selfappointed godlike status modern medicin cultivates today..... You probably can not handle or understand those.
No, I do not want to be in the Brazilian rainforrest within 36 hours. That is not my natural surrounding and I have no place there.
A series III Landy is a boydream for me, but it still is only a car. A tool, which is necessary in todays world, because communities and the services there in are much more widespread that they use to be. I grew up in a place where everything one really needed was within an hours walkingrange.
I do own a small 4x4, because I sometimes have to go to places a regular car would be hardpressed to reach. This small 4x4 consumes a lot less fuel than said Landy and when I have no need for it anymore it will go.
All of those benefits - and thousands more - didn't come from insights by the Yanomami Indians, or the Australian aborigines, living close to nature. THey came about as a result of civilisation and science. Sure that same civilisation brought about lots of bad things too, and it is a moot point whether we'd have been better off without it.
The Yanomami probably had stresslevels than were infinitely lower than ours and they Australian Aborigines probably consumed food that was no where near as high on carbs, sugars, additives, herbicides, insecticides etc. than ours. I therefor assume they would not need all the pills, medication and medical attention we need today..... or are told we need.
I do believe we would have been better off without it. Why? The earth probably would have been far less polulated than it is now, with all the benefits that come from that.
But we are where we are, and there's no going back.
I do think we need to go back and relearn our place in and our connection to this world. I do think we need to cut down on consumption drastically and make our lives a lot less complicated.
I have taken steps to go back, along with my family and we are happier for it. We started doing this just about a few years. One small step at a time, but the impact has been immense!!! We see things from a different perspective now and we can not understand why others keep on running in the ratrace....
Do I take this too serious??
I think it is a matter that is taken far too lightly...
Do I take this too serious??
I think it is a matter that is taken far too lightly...
Well Andy, However, we also choose not to have any of them vaccinated, so they can/will contract a disease like meazles and all those others
The very essence of your reply shows me you have not seriously studied the pro's and con's of (Dutch) government vaccinationprograms, have you?
And, for the Luddites (sorry, couldn't resist!), there has to be something slightly bizarre about complaining about modern society through the medium of the internet
Haven't most mass extinction events been followed by periods of increased biodiversity and complexity? For example, That is, the dinosaurs died leaving huge amounts of resources and niches free for small mammals and reptiles.
Agree with your comments on agriculture, min till is seen as cutting edge.