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These days, early in the 21st century, life changes so incredibly fast. Especially, but not limited to, technology.
It seems that by the time we buy an electronic product, it is nearly obsolete by the time we learn to use it.
Previous generations did not have to deal with that.
Think about it.
For the overwhelming percentage of people, their children, and numerous generations that followed, they lived exactly the same lives, and used the very same tools as did their grandparents.
For untold thousands of years, mankind survived on rough farming and the raising of a small number of animals. Take ancient Egypt for example. Yes, there were "big" cities , but most people survived on a few acres of land. A man might have an Ox, to pull a plow, and he hand scattered grains, following the annual flooding of the Nile. He, his children, and probably his wife would have reaped the grain by hand using a roughly sharpened copper hand tools. Back breaking work. We are told that one of the wife's duties was to roughly grind the grain between a hand held stone and a semi flat pestle stone. With the resulting "flour' she made bread which was contaminated with ultra fine stone. That stone gradually ground down the tooth enamel.
Most ancient Egyptians lived primarily on bread and beer., and a few fish from the Nile.
For hundreds and hundreds and hundreds years, not a single thing ever changed. What a man and wife taught their children, were used by those children's children, children.
It is said that todays driver can not drive 10 miles thru a city without breaking some minor traffic law.
It seems that by the time we buy an electronic product, it is nearly obsolete by the time we learn to use it.
Previous generations did not have to deal with that.
Think about it.
For the overwhelming percentage of people, their children, and numerous generations that followed, they lived exactly the same lives, and used the very same tools as did their grandparents.
For untold thousands of years, mankind survived on rough farming and the raising of a small number of animals. Take ancient Egypt for example. Yes, there were "big" cities , but most people survived on a few acres of land. A man might have an Ox, to pull a plow, and he hand scattered grains, following the annual flooding of the Nile. He, his children, and probably his wife would have reaped the grain by hand using a roughly sharpened copper hand tools. Back breaking work. We are told that one of the wife's duties was to roughly grind the grain between a hand held stone and a semi flat pestle stone. With the resulting "flour' she made bread which was contaminated with ultra fine stone. That stone gradually ground down the tooth enamel.
Most ancient Egyptians lived primarily on bread and beer., and a few fish from the Nile.
For hundreds and hundreds and hundreds years, not a single thing ever changed. What a man and wife taught their children, were used by those children's children, children.
It is said that todays driver can not drive 10 miles thru a city without breaking some minor traffic law.
