exactly pro-gress for who...
pro-gress means opposite for what has and is being portrayed to us folk
we really need to think in the alleged "climate change" no sustainable electricity non-sense that are being thrust in our faces and electric products are still being invented and mass produced on a daily basis that we can greatly reduce the need for electricity 100 fold and overnight [i start with selling my power tools and replace with as needed and not as a want hand tools]
yet that will not suit the oil-barrons tycoons and companies and the like that are a law to themselves with their extortion pricing and ways to force contracts on us folk
if the grid goes down alarms will run out of battery backup power electric doors and shutters etcetera will be left unlocked thereby making them non secure by any stretch of the imagination and nefarious types will gladly take advantage to steal and pillage what they can
we need to go back in time and reverse the damage the sudden need for electricity has become when they allege non sustainable electricity
am i the only one that can see thru their lies and deceit...??
simple is best
why change what has always worked for our forbears, because of corporate greed and the marketing shenanigans who rape and pillage the land for fiat-currency called money...??
Absolutely! I'm de-teching as much and as fast as I can in almost every area possible. Hand tools...yes it's nice to do a job quickly with less effort, but the day will come when hand tools will be gold dust.
A push mower, a hand drill, a pair of shears and a scyth will be tools worth their weight and rare as hens teeth.
I can remember the times B T (before tech) and it was normal life.
Nothing wrong with the old ways, they worked well for many generations. High tech will eventualy fail. Unless there is a mass cull of the human race...(where is my tin hat...
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It's all about money...our hard earned cash that we are persuaded to part with for the latest gadget that makes life easy and gives you more leasure time to enjoy, anyone noticed the increase in leasure time yet? Watching tomorrow's world, we were promised so much, 4 day working weeks, robots to do the housework, and pictures of gents on the golf course, and ladies sipping pimms by a swimming pool.
We have been suckered into believing that it was possible, we just had to own this gadget or that one. Which meant we had to work harder and longer hours to afford it. Very clever!meanwhile, the hard earned cash goes into some rich persons pocket making them even richer, with the strapline...you too can have this lifestyle, as he drives around in his porche and flies abroad for his holidays in some sundrenched Isle in the med. All of which we as the minions have kindly paid for, ever it is, as we are too tired to figure it out on our rest days, and too busy using our gadgets and feeling smug.
Time to wake up and smell the roses .
That said, some tech is great, solar panels, and lights, for one, so we need the right progress, not just progress for the sake of it which can make us lazy and give opportunities to criminals, such as card fraud, and other scams enabled by the amazing time saving online banking, and amazon orders that give opportunities to porch pirates and selling crap. Non of this sort of crime even existed when I was young, but its a shrug of the shoulders and "its all part of life nowadays" we may get upset but why do we allow it to happen in the first place? ..because we are duped into the belief that its quick and easy. We'll, I'm not fooled one bit, and I've always said so. Call me a luddite, I don't care. I'm proud to be ahead of the game, and I won't be in panic or misery mode when there is another Carrington event, a massive computer hack or anything else that might happen to set everyone back 30 years or more.
We have been dragged into the dream of the corporate greed, believing it would be the answer to our hum drum lives, we need to wake up, as all it has given us is global warming, and disasters in farming and food production, water shortages, deforestation, and wildfires, and if the last few weeks have not convinced you, there is not much hope for humanity.