03-30-2009, 08:50 AM
What the hell is wrong with technology? You are feeling guilty for using technology? That only means your memory is no longer working.
Let me remind you of the simple things that has changed in my lifetime.
I used an outhouse until I was 7 years old. In the winter time I droppped bricks down the outhouse hole to break the ice. In the summer I had to make sure spiders weren't living just underneath it in the summer time.
In stead of turning a thermostat on I had to chop wood constantly every summer until I was a sophmore in highschool.
My first car took me 7 months of weekends to re-build by myself other wise I didn't get one.
You want a chicken breast? You want some fried chicken? You bought a whole chicken, de-boned it, cut it, cleaned it and cooked it.
Watermelon was sold in the stores in June, July and August only. Pears, September, October and November. The only vegetable and fruit you could eat year round was lettece, carrots and greenbeens. Other wise you boiled jars for perserves up to and including tomatoes.
EVERYONE had a garden to suppliment your diet. EVERYONE supplimented your diet with fish and deer. Unless you were rich fishing and hunting wasn't just recreation it was still neccessary. A Prime Rib or Filet was so expensive you cooked it on holidays only. The only beef people could afford regularly was hamburger meat.
You watched three channels of TV in black in white on a TV that sat on the floor disquised as a piece of furniture.
Air conditioning was an open window with a fan in it or a rolled down car window.
Very few multi lane freeways. Most travel went over single lane highways moving each way. If you got behind a truck going 35 you were stuck.
Emergency services absolutely sucked if you got in a car accident or had a heart attack at home. It might take 30 mins to an hour before an ambulance "Might" arrive. You had to rely on yourselves.
Doing work and chores was neccessary and not a method to instill a work ethic.
You used a hoe to kill weeds instead of spray. You pushed a lawn mower instead of sitting on one.
I could keep going on but anyone who ignores what technology brings to our life today is either someone who never lived with out it or has completely forgotten what it was like with out it.
Life is so much better today then it was in the late 50's and early 60's.
Vllad
Let me remind you of the simple things that has changed in my lifetime.
I used an outhouse until I was 7 years old. In the winter time I droppped bricks down the outhouse hole to break the ice. In the summer I had to make sure spiders weren't living just underneath it in the summer time.
In stead of turning a thermostat on I had to chop wood constantly every summer until I was a sophmore in highschool.
My first car took me 7 months of weekends to re-build by myself other wise I didn't get one.
You want a chicken breast? You want some fried chicken? You bought a whole chicken, de-boned it, cut it, cleaned it and cooked it.
Watermelon was sold in the stores in June, July and August only. Pears, September, October and November. The only vegetable and fruit you could eat year round was lettece, carrots and greenbeens. Other wise you boiled jars for perserves up to and including tomatoes.
EVERYONE had a garden to suppliment your diet. EVERYONE supplimented your diet with fish and deer. Unless you were rich fishing and hunting wasn't just recreation it was still neccessary. A Prime Rib or Filet was so expensive you cooked it on holidays only. The only beef people could afford regularly was hamburger meat.
You watched three channels of TV in black in white on a TV that sat on the floor disquised as a piece of furniture.
Air conditioning was an open window with a fan in it or a rolled down car window.
Very few multi lane freeways. Most travel went over single lane highways moving each way. If you got behind a truck going 35 you were stuck.
Emergency services absolutely sucked if you got in a car accident or had a heart attack at home. It might take 30 mins to an hour before an ambulance "Might" arrive. You had to rely on yourselves.
Doing work and chores was neccessary and not a method to instill a work ethic.
You used a hoe to kill weeds instead of spray. You pushed a lawn mower instead of sitting on one.
I could keep going on but anyone who ignores what technology brings to our life today is either someone who never lived with out it or has completely forgotten what it was like with out it.
Life is so much better today then it was in the late 50's and early 60's.
Vllad