as animals 75% of us would be dead

In the animal world there isnt ever really a rest. They are constantly in search of food/shelter. They dont build permanent homes and arent able to store food like we do, cant mass produce food, they cant purchase food, clothing, or shelter to keep warm....they have to fight daily to live...


..all of our ancestors had to do the same thing and still some cultures do it now....

but for the most part were are all spoiled and would die if ever forced to have to fight for food/shelter/ and other basic imenities....like if tomorrow all sources of commercial products stopped being available and we all had to hunt for food and fight for shelter a great majority of the people would die off because they arent assertive enough let alone physically capable of working to live day in day out....

now
imagine being one of them pioneers who came to NA to settle.....every day would consist of being up at some ungodly hour, feeding animals, getting firewood, getting food, eating, making clothing, making/tending the shelter, and then going to bed at some ungodly hour.....day in day out just work from sunup to sundown, if you forgot or couldnt do one of the things on the chore list youd probably die....fuckin crazy...were all softies compared to them folk..

 

it's why i married a mountain man. when it all goes to hell, i'm gonna have someone who knows how to live. plus, the mountains are really nice. private and pretty.

 

I love the appalachians. A country boy can definatly survive

 

yup. absolutely true. i've lived the cabin life where i had to haul water, cut wood, fish for dinner, pick berries, etc. i've also done alot of camping. life quickly becomes a daily grind of just working to survive. it's fun for awhile, but after awhile it becomes a drag. especially if you have young children. you can't even begin to meet modern standards for cleanliness. no way. i've lasted for periods of up to six months, and then i started to get bored.

and even at that i had modern amenities like a wood stove for heat and cooking, a gasoline powered chain saw to cut wood, axes and mauls to split it, a knife and whetstone that allowed me to fillet the fish, buckets for hauling water, etc. i hauled in food that was purchased at a grocery store to supplement my diet, and i didn't have to build the cabin either.

maybe most important of all, i always had the option of hiking out to the road and going back to the modern world...which i eventually did. i just wanted to know that i could take care of myself without all the modern conveniences. i think if i had been able to build a permanent home on land i couldn't be run off of, it would have been different. i probably would have stayed, or at least returned seasonally. the natural beauty of the wild rural places is a strong enticement.

 

...we are animals. Our primary survival resource is co-operation with other members of the species, and as that co-operation has extended beyond immediate tribes and into larger communities it has enabled us to delegate and make more efficient our basic survival functions. That's a pretty clever way for a species to develop strategies for survival but the jury is still out on its longterm ramifications

 

nice post. well said.

 

would be nice to still live in a world like that. many ass whoopings have gone undone due to modern civilization