What will you sacrifice to Shrug?
Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 1 month ago to Culture
We have had a few discussions and even some planning on creating one or more Gulches for ourselves.
The undiscussed side of this is a basic issue....Technology.
A high technology lifestyle requires a high technology infrastructure and technology base.
Most if not all of us would not be looking for subsistence living without all the conveniences we are used to, but we would sacrifice some of them.
What will you give up?
Modern plumbing?
Running Water?
24/7 unlimited electricity?
Modern communications?
Amazon?
Atlas shrugged was a novel projecting from the technology base of the 40s and early 50s.
What time period would you be willing to roll back to in your gulch?
Keeping in mind the infrastructure needed to support it
The undiscussed side of this is a basic issue....Technology.
A high technology lifestyle requires a high technology infrastructure and technology base.
Most if not all of us would not be looking for subsistence living without all the conveniences we are used to, but we would sacrifice some of them.
What will you give up?
Modern plumbing?
Running Water?
24/7 unlimited electricity?
Modern communications?
Amazon?
Atlas shrugged was a novel projecting from the technology base of the 40s and early 50s.
What time period would you be willing to roll back to in your gulch?
Keeping in mind the infrastructure needed to support it
Previous comments...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven-s...
I can say this with certainty, as I already have already done so.
If you grew up in the area, you would know that this is no small thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake
But I wouldn't have to give up water because I am sure that among those brilliant people in the Gulch that there would be great minds that would be able to create a water system.
2. No
3. No
4. Maybe some
5. Yes
You don't roll back to less capable technology and times. That would be insane. The tech of today is what enables a high quality gulch to be remotely possible.
Personally, I doubt very much I would want to live in a world without today's technology. To have to do that would in fact mean billions of human fatalities quite quickly. I would prefer forward positive visioning and efforts rather than such dark visions much less thinking perhaps it is "needed".
Yes, we can make choices that have evil or destructive results. Yes, people can be warped by their experiences and follow paths that also lead to evil choices. Almost everyone has a breaking point [remember the trailer?] at which the lesser of 2 evils seems to be the only choice.
But man is "evil and corrupt and no-damn-good" inherently, all the time, every single one? NO.
Every single person is an amalgam of both good and bad impulses. One of the purposes of a social group or society regardless of size is to define rules for the group.
At base you have to deal with problems yourself. If your group is part of a larger society you can also use that society's rules to deal with the problem as well.
Just look at the original use of the word here.