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Originally posted by CirqueDeTruth
This is abstract.
Last night my oldest daughter and I were watching "Wife Swap" on ABC.
I know, I know. Why? Well, I only have a converter box. I refuse to get cable. I'm not rotting my kids brains with nickelodeon and the cartoon network. Period.
So anyways. The two wives are from a Michigan farm nearly off the grid, and a woman from Las Vegas who lives the "good life".
At the end of the show, I ask my eldest daughter, "So which life would you prefer? The off the gird Michigan life (we live in Michigan, but in the city, complete with all technological comforts.) or would you rather have the Las Vegas life living up the night life, and lounging about during the day?
I was so proud. My daughter says, "Well, it makes more sense to know how to take care of yourself, once all the technology is stripped away. I guess I'd pick the Michigan life. Just because, I want to know how to live life with or without the technology!"
It's all about just talking to our children. Reminding them that life continues on, no matter WHAT! Even when the phones and TV are stripped away, guess what.... we live on. It's our saving grace, our ability to adapt. I don't worry so much about technology. If it can't be used for the benefit of all mankind, we will squash it voluntarily anyways. I really believe that.
Peace,
Cirque
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
Folks from the city will not come pouring out. Some will, a majority I don't believe would. By the time they realized it was a matter of survival it would be too late.
Originally posted by Ellie Sagan
I think like this a LOT. I could have easily written the same stuff you just wrote about. I don't think it's strange at all. What I do think is strange is that so many people don't believe it's even possible for us to lose our technology and power.
Things DO get lost. Inside the British museum is an ancient Egyptian electric battery. After that, we had to wait several thousand years to start using an electric world, about the mid 1800's. When you consider the number of people today who devise electrical devices, i.e. understand electricity, these people are far outnumbered by those who just use it as a convenience.
Originally posted by tymothymichel
reply to post by Antigod
Well, as a nurse and an ex-military surgical tech, plus being an herbalist hobbyist, I think I'd just hang out my shingle and work for barter...even in the wasteland people need medical care. I'm thinkn that may help my family through, hence why I chose the job path. If you're the closest thing to the town doc that people have, they may keep an eye on you.
Originally posted by buddha
I think it would be great!
but we would just repeat history.
with ALL the mistakes...
how many of us know how to make things?
how do you find and mine metals?
then refine it and make things.
how do you build a steam engine?
it would all be lost.
because we dont have books for this.
how do you make a TV?
you need to build cameras and transmitters and the TV.
could you build a glass valve?
I just get upset when people come up and say massive amounts of the population would die off.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
reply to post by seabag
How did our forefathers survive before the invention of electricity? How did our parents (and some of us) survive before cell phones and Google?
The difference is they grew up learning the skills necessary to survive. For example, my great-grandfather built his own buildings and home, knew how to hunt and run a farm. Whereas I have never had to build anything, have never hunted or foraged for food, etc. those basic survival skills the older generation knew....are lost to many of us.
reply to post by tymothymichel
Well, as a nurse and an ex-military surgical tech, plus being an herbalist hobbyist, I think I'd just hang out my shingle and work for barter...even in the wasteland people need medical care. I'm thinkn that may help my family through, hence why I chose the job path. If you're the closest thing to the town doc that people have, they may keep an eye on you.