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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Show me where I can go and get FREE all the materials I will need to build my house in this new place, and to have people with knowledge help me build the house for free...
Show me where I can go and have FREE electricity all year around. At the very least I will need light, and to live in a place where it NEVER gets too hot or too cold, otherwise my family and myself will NEED AC and a heater...
Please show me a place where all my waste, and I am not talking about plastic bottles but the waste that comes from my rear end and front end, will be sent through the FREE plumbing to a place where it will be processed for FREE...
Please show me a place where i can get a few drinks for FREE, and where i can stay for FREE with a few friends and enjoy the evening...
Please show me a place where all my nutritional needs, and those of my family, are met by only eating fish...
I don't believe in living beyond my means. I also don't believe in expending lots of money to live my life, but I do know that somehow people need to work for several hours a day to make a living, unless they are truly disabled.
Unless you show me such a place I have to say this is nothing more than the lunatic ramblings of someone who doesn't know what it takes to live ANYWHERE in this world...
Originally posted by rufusdrak
reply to post by 12voltz
Wow that was frickin' awesome haha...very vividly exposes the hollow and shallow western capitalist mentality.
Originally posted by Sphota
reply to post by killyou
I hate to break it to you, but our "Western" culture is their plight.
Ask yourself this question, between all the crime, social problems, cancer, pollution, car accidents, obesity, large scale war, terrorism, and so on...is this "modern" world somehow more ideal and safer than our old way of doing it?
Originally posted by The Endtime Warrior
reply to post by 12voltz
its sad you have to clarify yourself, 12voltz. I dont understand how anyone made it this far in life without able to understand the difference between a metaphor, and a literal piece of information.
Originally posted by davespanners
The life described in the original post is of course idyllic and sounds amazing, and at one point in my life I did do the whole hippie traveling around thing.
I see one major problem with this lifestyle however and that is one of technological advancement. For large scale project of any sort to work there has to be people that specialize in certain disciplines and spend their whole time just working in that area.
If you are a Chemist working on trying to cure some disease or another you aren't going to be able to make much progress if you have to spend half of your time catching fish and building fires, you are also pretty stuck if you live in a bartering based economy as no one is going to want to exchange anything for your half finished useless research, thats why human beings invented a system where you can get someone else to do these things for you and you pay them money for doing it.
I guess some people will say, well we are better off without all of this technology, but imagine a society that just spent their whole time fishing and sleeping, they never invented metallurgy, they never invented glass, and so they never invented the telescope and thus they were completely surprised when a large meteor hurtled down from the cosmos and smashed their idyllic village into a thousand pieces.
I see one major problem with this lifestyle however and that is one of technological advancement. For large scale project of any sort to work there has to be people that specialize in certain disciplines and spend their whole time just working in that area. If you are a Chemist working on trying to cure some disease or another you aren't going to be able to make much progress if you have to spend half of your time catching fish and building fires, you are also pretty stuck if you live in a bartering based economy as no one is going to want to exchange anything for your half finished useless research, thats why human beings invented a system where you can get someone else to do these things for you and you pay them money for doing it.
I guess some people will say, well we are better off without all of this technology, but imagine a society that just spent their whole time fishing and sleeping, they never invented metallurgy, they never invented glass, and so they never invented the telescope and thus they were completely surprised when a large meteor hurtled down from the cosmos and smashed their idyllic village into a thousand pieces.