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For the past few days the electricity company have been replacing transformers around my area.I look at families around me and am astonished at the amount of people who cannot eat because they have no power for their cookers or boil their kettles, and have to sit in the cold because they have no heating.
Why have people become so dependant that they cannot even do the basics that has kept mankind alive, such as light a fire or even cook a meal that does not come from a tin or local store?
I was raised in the country where we had fresh milk and eggs every day and when the occasion arose we ate the chickens.I am not screamish when it comes to skinning a bunny and cooking it, and yet people would rather starve than do this..!
I guess i am just amazed at how the human race has become so depandant on the things that will not keep them alive and are ignorant to the basic acts of survival.

hmm. part of me wants to defend the others cuz we all rely on electricity and its just a social acceptance...... but they should be prepared for an emergency, eh?

that's dumb...... any person who loves his family would have some basic essenstials..
what dopes...

I think it stems from the fact that in most cases people have never had to rely on anything other than electricity. People have grown up in a time where electricity is the norm and they don't have to prepare a fire or skin a rabbit. Take people living in .. L.A. or NYC. I'd bet that almost 95% of them have never lived on a farm or had to do things like skin a bunny. They know the city life..which is go to the local diner and grab a bite to eat or pop something in the microwave. It's alot like the computer age. If the credit card machine is down the waitress can't figure out how to do a manual transaction. She's grown dependent on computers like many people have. Does that make them less of a person.. I'd say no. Should they have a backup plan sure why not.

Nah, if it all went to hell.
I'd be cool.

But even though I have the knowledge & skill,
I'm not going to sweat it unless necessary.

Why walk, when I can drive?
I'm not going to forget how to walk,
but at the same time I'm not going to shy away from it.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Yeah a little bit,..thankfully it doesn't smell like fish though.

When I was teaching and also doing artist-in-schools residencies, I spent a lot of time in inner-city schools. I would take students into natural settings in order to "draw from nature."

It always amazed me how kids from the inner city actually acted afraid of the woods and places like that. They would run under a tree and slap themselves because they thought they were getting full of bugs and ticks all the time. They would shake the bushes to make sure they weren't full of snakes and stuff. They seemed to think there are wild animals everywhere, etc.

This seemed odd to me compared to the types of roaches and vermin and all sorts of dangers their familiar environments contained.

I think this has something to do with how far we can get from nature when we are products of civilization. It may be an extreme example, but it always seemed illuminating...

I know exactly what your saying rogue, I know how to hunt and fish, skin and cleane animals...but that won't stop me from going to the supermarket for a steak to cook...

Rabbits.... most useless animals ever.... they eat to obtain enough energy to eat more. They over reproduce. They are over populated. They are not important.

We should eat more rabbits....

I could kill stuff and eat it, I can build a fire, I can prepare food from scratch. The only problem is that to kill anything (like the deer in my yard) I'd have to resort to primitive weapons doue to the gun-phobic mother. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, I've taken a branch, stripped it, bent it slightly with moisture, left it in the sun to dry, taken vine fibers and braided tehm into string, made straight branches into arrows, and been able to put one a few inches into a dead stump. If I can make my own longbow, I think I'd be able to survive.

You simply haven't eaten "country" till you've dined on rabbit stew.

When I was a kid we didn't get too many rabbits, but we got a shitload of squirrels :)

I could survive but I wouldn't be able to tell my wife where the meat came from.

It's sad today.

People won't even stuff their own turkeys anymore!

My mother came up with some great live chicken stories. While they are not for the squeamish, you do what you need to. I agree, people have become too reliant on methods that require less work...

NO COMPUTER...


Don't say that.

World's King - Nice avatar. Dropkick rocks.

I would probably not be able to survive. Normally, no problem. In Taiwan, no way. No gas or electricity here, would mean no clean water. Drinking the water would mean diarrhea and further dehydration, possibly worse depending on what are one lives in.

Self-preservation is an instinct at some point it should kick in...never tested it myself though.