rScotty
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- Joined
- Apr 21, 2001
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- Location
- Rural mountains - Colorado
- Tractor
- Kubota M59, JD530, JD310SG. Restoring Yanmar YM165D
Yes, some skills are being lost. You start to wonder if it's simply society dumbing down or just technology moving ahead and people not learning stuff that is heading to the history pages.
I think that "technology moving ahead" is the answer to that question. I'm pretty good at what I know, but I have only a simplistic and theoretical idea of how to knap a flint or haft it securely to form a decent tool....skills that were part of a normal education for a few hundred thousand years. My ancestors might think I was pretty dumb - and perhaps rightly so.
Down here our govt creates laws all the time to save you from yourself, so people become less and less likely to have a go at anything...
Yep, that's sure frustrating. It's a downside that seems to be part and parcel of the package which comes along with a generally good government. I'm ok with it because I've seen bad governments - and they are way worse.
One of the nice things about the USA - and a big reason why the country works so well - is simply that it is so big. Now matter what a person's philosophical preference, there is probably some place where the people and the local government feel the same way about things.
rScotty