This is seine rambling, a place that tries to separate reality from mythology.
Gratefully, humanity’s greatest attribute is never to leave well enough alone. I relish change - I relish choice - I particularly relish leisure, time to spend doing things not necessary but oh so interesting. That our primordial ancestors moved to a heated cave sets us apart from all other life forms and the rest, as is said, is our history.
If you don’t believe it was that some of our farsighted ancestors, modifying the natural world to better serve human needs, is what makes your life easier today I wish you luck in the survival games. If you pick the fairy dust out of your eyes, one day you too might be grateful for being born into an industrial society.
That dear reader is the harshness I feel toward folks that think we’d all be better off if we lived in a tighter bond with nature. I’m prepared to offer odds that some 95% of the people on this earth would be dead in half a year if we halted industry.
I think the situation is too dire to mince words. Between the truly insane and the silently apathetic, we are speeding down the road to oblivion. I see the governments we have elected push green, woke agendas while all too many people either applaud or yawn and post cat pictures on Facebook.
Rather than leave you with the impression that there is no hope, just as the problems are manmade, so will be the solution. The world we get tomorrow is the world we work to build today. The fight for sanity is not lost until you throw in the towel.
So that’s what this Substack will be about, my attempt to give you reasons to value a modern, industrial world, to appreciate the human ability to modify and yes, exploit nature for human benefit. If possible, to see human flourishing as the proper goal for a human being.
If it is a concise news feed you seek, this may not be a page for you.
If you shed fairy dust as you walk, I’ll also suggest, you may be offended here.
But if you might like to see what someone that worked steel, wood and concrete into buildings, that got covered in grease when repairing and replacing machines that gobbled up 1000's of horsepower to process nature’s material in the things that build and fill our homes and our lives. I invite you to stick with me.
I won’t be posting too often but I’m eclectic and opinionated, loving both history and playing with words and other tools of varying description.
This fight to regain sanity can be won. History tells us that it’s possible. Today’s prevailing ideas did not build this world and … are incomprehensibly destructive of both human flourishing and human life.
Broadly speaking, accurately separating reality from mythology is the winning strategy. Stay tuned for my first posting; Lemings and Cliffs