I did a YouTube on this question recently and thought that it was worth blogging about as well.
I came across this thought while watching a video on wood stoves. The maker of the video said that a lot of people have a romantic version in their heads about the life of using a wood stove. "It's dirty and hard work!" she said.
I am guilty of this romantic version.
It got me thinking about how truly hard life was back in the days where most people had wood stoves to cook on and for heat. With little medical advancement in those times and the hard lifestyle, people didn't live as long.
On the other side of the coin, we now in this day and age have lots of medical advancement, but too much convenience in my opinion. We can easily go through a fast food drive thru anytime and fill up on junk -- We have some choice over where our food comes from, but most of us just go down to the local food mart and pick up whatever is offered there. We're so busy that we don't give it much thought.
My thoughts are that the 40's 50's maybe early 60's may have been the sweet spot for medical advancement but also having healthier, more localized, unfooled around with foods. We were a bit more self sufficient getting exercise from these old fashioned habits.
Where will our current lifestyle take us?
My son says that maybe we'll turn out like the people on Wall E -- and I'm sad to say, he might be right.
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