Can you imagine if I could talk to my great great grandfather? Beyond the “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” part, if he handed my sorry out of shape self an axe and said…boy fell that tree yonder! And I’d take two or three good swings and break a vigorous sweat and declare time for a break.
Can you imagine that a man came into the wilderness without any power saws and used his axe and took down, then stripped and cut down enough trees to build a log cabin before winter set in. If he was lucky, maybe there was another family or two traveling with them. And…if you were unsucessful, winter would set in and you could freeze to death or just be eaten by bears.
Honestly, even with a few power tools, I’m not sure at all that I could make a log cabin that would be safe to live in.
We won’t even embarrass ourselves reflecting on raw human power in making the pyramids of Egypt or the Mayan pyramids.
So, with all our power tools and computers…the average person should have outdone his predecessors…right?
Err no. We are weak, fat and less of darn near everything.
But we talk a lot more…O yeah..cause talk…is cheap….
Adam Carolla noted on one of his free-fm radio shows that we’ve run out of real problems (or for the most part) like malaria and mumps and chicken pox and measles and polio and the plague that you had to stay toughened up to survive.
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