"Oh, you did 3 loads of laundry today? Well, I wash my clothes in a freezing creek BY HAND. But do go on...I'd LOVE to hear more....Oh, you're too busy to cook? Hmmm, I seem to find time, and I have to shoot it and skin it myself too."
Well, that was not ME talking, that was an illustration of a person today talking to a historic person. I wasn't saying I do my laundry in a creek!! Notice I also never excluded myself from guilt here. I said "we're" not busy.
The point of the post was that people today complain about tasks we have to do that are SO simple now compared to even just 75 years ago. Laundry, cooking, being 2 huge examples. People today claim they don't have time to cook a meal, but look what making a meal entailed 100 years ago. Catch it, gut it, grow it yourself, build a fucking fire, cook it....EVERY DAY. That, on top of everything else you had to get done in a day-just to stay alive.
I think you just read it too quick and assumed you got the point, but didn't. Slow down.
Oh, okay. Sorry about that, but the mistake was easily made.
I still disagree a little. We have more responsibilities to other people than they did back then. If you've got a job you're responsible to your employer to make deadlines, and your colleagues, and to society to pay your taxes. You might have to do less nowadays for yourself and your family, but you've got to do more for other people. In the end, you can't really compare two different eras because you can't have lived in both of them. Although I do understand what you're getting at now.
Also, the person from the past still sounds a little bit self-righteous to me. Even if the person isn't you :P
Are you busy??
← View full post
Did you build your computer too? I suppose I must be pretty lazy and inferior to you for, y'know, buying one. Yawn.
--
Anonymous Post Author
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
You missed the point.
--
dom180
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
No, you missed mine.
--
Anonymous Post Author
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
No, I'm pretty sure you missed mine.
--
dom180
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
0
0
Maybe both are true.
But my point is that you're self-righteously criticising other people's life choices. Disagreeing with you does not mean I have missed your point.
--
Anonymous Post Author
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
1
1
Where was I self-righteous?
Was it this whole bit:
"Oh, you did 3 loads of laundry today? Well, I wash my clothes in a freezing creek BY HAND. But do go on...I'd LOVE to hear more....Oh, you're too busy to cook? Hmmm, I seem to find time, and I have to shoot it and skin it myself too."
Well, that was not ME talking, that was an illustration of a person today talking to a historic person. I wasn't saying I do my laundry in a creek!! Notice I also never excluded myself from guilt here. I said "we're" not busy.
The point of the post was that people today complain about tasks we have to do that are SO simple now compared to even just 75 years ago. Laundry, cooking, being 2 huge examples. People today claim they don't have time to cook a meal, but look what making a meal entailed 100 years ago. Catch it, gut it, grow it yourself, build a fucking fire, cook it....EVERY DAY. That, on top of everything else you had to get done in a day-just to stay alive.
I think you just read it too quick and assumed you got the point, but didn't. Slow down.
--
dom180
11 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
2
2
See More Comments =>
Oh, okay. Sorry about that, but the mistake was easily made.
I still disagree a little. We have more responsibilities to other people than they did back then. If you've got a job you're responsible to your employer to make deadlines, and your colleagues, and to society to pay your taxes. You might have to do less nowadays for yourself and your family, but you've got to do more for other people. In the end, you can't really compare two different eras because you can't have lived in both of them. Although I do understand what you're getting at now.
Also, the person from the past still sounds a little bit self-righteous to me. Even if the person isn't you :P