Primitive living, it turns out, is so much easier with an inheritance. And if you’re into Stone Age role-play, then spare cash and pre-built property, complete with solar panels, power outlets and rudimentary plumbing, does seem rather handy, perhaps a prerequisite. Such that our fearless disdainer of modernity can “divide her time” flying between continents as mood suits, from Sweden to France’s Dordogne Valley and back to the mountains of Washington, USA.
I remember many a family fishing trip while I was growing up. We’d come back home hot, dirty, and tired with, usually, a modest catch in the cooler. (There were times when we returned completely skunked.)
My father often said later that after all that fuss and horsing around at whichever river we went to (oh, the joys of climbing over yet another driftwood pile–yeah, right), he would have been better off to buy that blasted fish in the grocery store.
And he was right. To this day, I hate fishing. Blow it out your ear, Izaak Walton.
Just get the grocery store clerk to toss you the fish. Then you can say you caught it. Spare yourself long boring hours holding a fishing rod in boat.
Grey Owl, she ain’t.
Foregoing Buckskins ! No she probably flies first class to forego the stench of humanity unable to jet about with ample bucks in the bank.
“Lynx”
Just what the world needs: another childish *&^%$#g drip.
In virtually all solar panel installations, the panels feed directly into the grid, not the house. The homeowner gets a credit on his electric bill for the power delivered to the grid, but he does not get any electricity from the panels. Moreover, if the grid goes down, as it does sometimes, the panels will not supply power to the house.
In virtually all solar panel installations, the panels feed directly in the grid…
Except, perhaps, the off-grid ones?
My off grid solar feeds directly into my batteries, but I don’t pretend that’s stone age living. I know perfectly well I do it because I like modern kit.
I’ve also lived with four people in an adobe hut of less than 200 square feet, shit in a hole in the ground and hauled water up and down a cliff.
Putting in a single electric light bulb hanging by a cord from the ceiling, a single plumbed faucet on the patio and government supplied brick shit house with a flush toilet was a big improvement in living. Really big. HUUUUGE.
kfg, I don’t want to live anywhere where there is no brewery.
There was one electric refrigerator in the village, at the pole building “restaurant.” Other than a few bottles of Coca-Cola for the kids it was stuffed with Dos Equis. Even primitives have priorities.
They traded sea turtles for it.
I know how she feels!
Every summer I like to pitch my canvas outfitters tent (complete with wood stove) in the back yard, just like my ancestors did.
It’s an easy reach to fridge food indoors then the BBQ on the deck when your hungry, and of course the bathrooms not to far inside the house.
…..and it gets cold some nights, even in mid summer, but a few steps away and voila I’m snuggled in my cozy master bedroom with central heating as needed.
BTW, I do cheat a little by using kerosene in my oil lamps in the tent, and modern sleeping bags on the cots, so it’s not “entirely” pre-historic.
There is a likely reason hunter gatherer societies eventually adopted farming …. Most people like to eat regularly
Off-grid is not a synonym for pre-historic. While you are quarantined, do a web search for “primitive technology.” Building stuff with nothing more than Stone Age technology. Gotta have something to do.
There’s gotta be a reality TV series in there somewhere.
I have done my own survey of friends who experienced the 30’s & 40’s .. Given the choice of Electricity, or Modern Water & Sewer… 99% would give up Electricity….The amount of time & labor spent hauling water for Household & livestock and the inconvenience of the OUT House (-30 F) were not those memories worth repeating . The Cutting & splitting of wood was a life threatening struggle for survival.
The idea that some people would like the experience, builds self reliance, is the foolhardy…Cabin Fever is a mental condition that is undesirable….
The same holds for Natives who want to experience the Tribal culture of their past… and then wonder were all the missing females have gone. What did they expect?
Phillip: you might want to remember that in most cases, without electricity there is no running water and no flush away sewer.
Way along ago in the days of the train stoppages by the anarcho-natives, I proposed starting up the “1491 Initiative”.
Basically, I’ll apologize for all what my ancestors did to native ancestors.
If they accepted my apology, great, we go on.
If they don’t…they have to move back to 1491. No metal, no medicine, no electricity, no plumbing, nothing from after 1491.
If Bill Gates checks his emails he’ll find my submission for funds…
Those Rail-Blockers sure had a lot of propane bottles lying around. I wonder where that stuff comes from. (Actually, no. As a geologist I know exactly where that stuff comes from)
A true stone age existence would preclude steel bladed axes, knives, and crosscut saws, hence no log cabins, etc. Stone age poseur!
J C, all those things that are impossible to possess without fossil fuels.
Lynx is a bull sh*tter she would dead in prehistoric time and as for living like the time she doesn’t have it right NO tools. People in the earlier years didn’t live that long 40 was a ripe old age so she would be dead!! Just saying!
Based on remains recovered and analyzed to date, the average lifespan of a British hunter-gatherer was 28 and the maximum 40.
b t , at the turn of the century, 1900, the average life span for a male in Canada was 46 years of age. We are now at 82, years of age. Something must have improved, if not our mental state.
“to live as wild people lived”
Wild people, wild animals for that matter, even the ones who live in the earth, have the good sense to make beds.
kfg, if they can’t kill something, anything, you can’t get there from here. It takes a lot of work to hunt and dress game, even a rabbit requires s degree of skill.