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What Do You Think?

Hegemone posted on Sep 20, 2009 | views: 123 | Tags: family, questions, technology, thoughts, What do you think, no, Yes
I think I'll take my opportunity this morning to get a post in and maybe put out some of the little thoughts rolling in my brain that I haven't gotten around to.  Nothing bad at least, just a couple of things I've been pondering, some thoughts, some questions.

My husband and I were talking about technology last night.  We both agreed that while it helps us so tremendously in so many ways (complicated equipment vastly improving medical care, improving farming techniques to produce more quality product at a faster rate, providing services faster and sometimes more efficiently, etc.), it is also just as much of a restraint.  See, we're all so dependent on technology now that I wonder how this planet would ever suffice if all computers and things of that nature just shut down one day. 
  1. Could we figure out how to go back to grass roots and live again? 
  2. Could we figure it out fast enough to make a difference?
  3. Could YOU reorient yourself quickly enough so you could provide your own means of food, transport, etc.?

Moving away from that though, I've also been thinking about family.  Some people feel they are nothing without their family, and sometimes that even includes extended family (cousins, 2nd cousins, step-family).  Some people want nothing to do with their family and spend lots of time and emotional resource to block themselves away.  Others are a mixture and only feel they need specific family members and nothing more.  This brings me to my thought.  Personally I feel I'm one of those people who are a mixture.  Essentially, as long as things are OK with my mom and my husband, and at a stretch my dad (a lot because we live with him I think, but that could change when we move out), I'm fine.  I really don't need a connection with anybody else.  It doesn't bother me that I don't speak to my other family members.  As long as none of their health is in danger, it's OK that I don't talk to them or even see them for years on end.  They're my family, I love them, but they are not essential to my day to day functions and I'm not essential to theirs.
  1. Where do you think YOU fit into this?
  2. Are you OK with that?
    1. If you aren't, why?  Is it because you WANT to feel differently, or because you're worried others will think poorly of you for it?

That's all for now, but I'm curious to see what you guys think about this.


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  • simplyconfused said on Sep 20, 2009....
    Technology
    1. I think that there are people that could, and others that wouldn't.  It would be a matter of people of the world combining forces to survive.  I'm not to sure if everybody would be willing to help those who need it.  I think there would be those people who are self centered and feel "if you don't know this it's your fault, survival of the fittest" type deal.

    2. Perhaps, again it would be a matter of people would co-operate and be willing to help and combine forces.

    3. Well it would be extremely difficult, and I have my doubts it would take me a short amount of time to learn.  I would probably die. =p

    Family
    1. I'm not overly sure.  I would be O.K without having any contact with my family members.  On the other hand there are some I don't like to not talk to for a long amount of time.  I'm not close to my family by any means.

    2. I'm not really OK with not being close to my family.  I don't like feeling like the outcast or the oddball that doesn't overly belong.
  • TONY_LONELY said on Sep 20, 2009....
    NO PC!?
  • Hegemone said on Sep 20, 2009....
    Simply - I agree with you that it would be a mixture of some surviving, others not, and definitely the 'survival of the fittest' thought process would come into play in a huge way.  I'm still trying to decide if I would have what it takes to get my butt in gear and survive.  Family wise, yeah, I get what you mean.  Sometimes you just need the contact.  I've been battling in my own mind with feelings of being the odd person out I suppose, because we just keep to ourselves mostly.

    Tony - No PCs at all.  Nothing even remotely computer or mechanically related.
  • CayenneMan said on Sep 20, 2009....
     I'm telling you straight up Hegemone, I'm a survivor. I can do anything it would take to make life livable as long as I have my health and faith in God. I don't like moving forward into a 'plastic' world filled with all of our electronic friends ( computers, cameras, gas & electric cars etc. ) , I'm not kidding.  I'd much prefer to live in the slow lane, I've been riding high for way to long and I've seen others make far to many mistakes :o(  .   I know about a lot of things, I've been around , you have know idea trust me.  Hell , I have my own time machine . . . :o)  ha, ha, ha funny huh ? Wow, wouldn't that be something ?
       As long as I have an ample amount of love and my fishing rod, I'll do mighty fine and that's just the way it is.
  • CreativeWoman said on Sep 20, 2009....
    I could survive without technology.  I hope I never have to.  Diabetes would add an extra complication for me.  Would I be able to live a fruitful life without medicine?  I could survive until it got me.

    As far as family goes, as long as I had my immediate family around me I would be fine.  I have cousins, etc. that I like, but we aren't close.

    CW
  • AlleyCatMomma said on Sep 20, 2009....
    In my day to day existance I love that my immediate family is close to me. My other relatives I care for but do not see very often. There are definately people like my mom, dad, and husband who i really rely on but I think if it really came down to it, if for some reason they were gone I would find a way to muddle through. Mostly because I would have to but it wouldn't be pleasant and I would have to rebuild my support system from the ground up. I'm o.k. with the way things are right now.
  • bluegum said on Sep 21, 2009....
    For me surviving would not be too great a effort but i think there would be other forces that would be too great to make the transion to say 150 to 200 years to the past way of living, as far as milking cows shelling corn slaughtering beef that sort of thing that would be no trouble ,but to cope with people who could'nt boil water and there would be millions of them it would be a disaster of epic proportion,it scares the s$#@t out of me.but for those with some dirt on their hands,I still  think we would be jake .Blue.
  • Mr.Strange said on Sep 21, 2009....
    If you talk to me directly,

    I can show you the way.

    You will do it for yourself first,

    then you will help others.

    Come to me,

    I know something you could know.

    It will make everything else possible.

    I have freed two people tonight.

    Ask wish

    She can verify what I can do
  • Mr.Strange said on Sep 21, 2009....
    Ask wish

    She can verify what I can do.
  • queenparanoia said on Sep 21, 2009....

    about technology, if you wanna know if you could survive without it... try living in a third world country... believe you'll survive... :-)

    about family: i'm a mix too. sometimes want to independent and alone and sometimes i need my family too... :-)

  • queenparanoia said on Sep 21, 2009....
    i forgot to type. me.... the sentence should be...
     
    believe me you'll survive... :-)
  • Hegemone said on Sep 21, 2009....
    CM - Well, glad to hear you'd be one of the remaining on this planet.  I'm beginning to think I could too, essentially.  It'd take a lot of work, but I know enough to do it, it would just take some getting used to.

    CW - Yeah, that's what would really concern me, is all of the medical attention that would go down the drains.  We think our medical system is bad now?  Oh geez, wait til there are sick people and no means for taking care of it beyond what little might have been saved from before whatever wiped it all out.  Scary to think of.

    Ally - Right, well, just speaking in living terms, you don't want to tell them all to buzz off, you want them around, so that's a good thing.  That's kind of the way I feel.

    Blue - Yup, we would all definitely need to rely on each other, which is where I think it would get sticky.  If you piss off the guy slaughtering your cow because you don't know how, well, you better watch out.  It's mostly scary just to think about the survival of the fittest dynamic.

    Mr. Strange - Perhaps at another time I'll take you up on the offer, but currently I'm doing OK.  Thank you for reaching out though.

    Queenie - Good viewpoint, I'm glad you got around to this.  I hadn't even thought of that honestly.  Sounds like some of us would be better prepared than others, our true colors would really shine, but I think we'd all figure it out eventually.  Survival instinct probably kicks in pretty hard when you're forced to let it.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Sep 21, 2009....

    Technology

    1. Could we figure out how to go back to grass roots and live again?  very likely I could.
    2. Could we figure it out fast enough to make a difference? A difference? as in reducing the impact that technology has made on the ecology?  doubful.
    3. Could YOU reorient yourself quickly enough so you could provide your own means of food, transport, etc.? I'm hoping so, and think I stand a pretty good chance of being able to.

    Family

    1. Where do you think YOU fit into this? I have a few family members I deal with.  I am past caring what people think of my relationship to my family.  I do what I have to protect myself.
    2. Are you OK with that?
      1. If you aren't, why?  Is it because you WANT to feel differently, or because you're worried others will think poorly of you for it? I guess I answered that above :)
  • Hegemone said on Sep 21, 2009....
    Uni - Glad to hear you'd be one of the remaining on the planet.  As far as my second question in that series, I sort of meant it as 'fast enough to make a difference as to whether we'll survive as a whole or not'.  It just makes me wonder what we're all REALLY made of and it's probably not something people think about every day.  I mean, I know I don't ask myself daily, 'So, if none of this was working tomorrow, could I get myself to my job somehow, could I grow/harvest/cook my own food, could I figure out how to get water for bathing and drinking?'  Also, that is great to hear you're in such a good place with protecting yourself and not giving a rat's heiny about what others think.  That's what I'm working towards.

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