I really enjoyed this piece. Your writing is excellent, and you provide a unique and interesting take on this current fad of returning to traditional lifestyles. This theme is something I've been thinking a lot about lately, and now you've given me more good food for thought.
I do think that one aspect of fully realizing our humanity it to explore and embrace new challenges and overcome them. That said, I also believe we've really lost something as a culture in the postmodern West, something that more traditional and even primitive cultures have managed to retain. While we don't want to become Luddites and hide in fear from the challenges of our times, it can also be worthwhile to retrace our historical steps to see where we went wrong in our societal development and how we can reclaim the good that has been lost, with an aim of getting back in the fight and moving forward again.
Well, my only disagreement is reframing our current situation as a misstep in history. I think everything we're experiencing has been a constant for our species but manifested in a different way -- perhaps painted by the most recent past every time. We definitely lose and gain something ; history has a tendency to work like a slingshot.
As I say, luddites are right about everything, but in the end, it doesn't matter.
I really enjoyed this piece. Your writing is excellent, and you provide a unique and interesting take on this current fad of returning to traditional lifestyles. This theme is something I've been thinking a lot about lately, and now you've given me more good food for thought.
I do think that one aspect of fully realizing our humanity it to explore and embrace new challenges and overcome them. That said, I also believe we've really lost something as a culture in the postmodern West, something that more traditional and even primitive cultures have managed to retain. While we don't want to become Luddites and hide in fear from the challenges of our times, it can also be worthwhile to retrace our historical steps to see where we went wrong in our societal development and how we can reclaim the good that has been lost, with an aim of getting back in the fight and moving forward again.
Well, my only disagreement is reframing our current situation as a misstep in history. I think everything we're experiencing has been a constant for our species but manifested in a different way -- perhaps painted by the most recent past every time. We definitely lose and gain something ; history has a tendency to work like a slingshot.
As I say, luddites are right about everything, but in the end, it doesn't matter.