[quote]Samir wrote:
Life in general has gotten good, to the point where everything is convenient and/or automated.
Believe it or not, for most people, the gym is a replacement of shit that used to happen in real life, even 50 years ago. People didn’t actually need to exercise because life itself was demanding!
As a poor kid growing up, I had to bike everywhere, do everything for myself, fold my own shit, clean my own room, go to the movie store (by foot or bike) to rent something, food was simple because there was no $$$ for elaborate stuff like cupcakes so it was basically chicken/veg 6 days out of 7, and a fruit here and there, usually cheap stuff like bananas and tomatoes.
-No manual labor jobs
-Kids growing up in suburbs, not on farms
-Car to go everywhere
-Less trips/movement needed due to stuff like Netflix
-Cheaper but lower quality food
-Hobbies like “walking along the river” for entertainment replaced with Xbox
-Going to SEE friends instead of FB Chat, Gtalk, etc.
I love all the lazy shit like TV, Xbox, etc., but sometimes I seriously find myself doing something like mopping or scrubbing my floor or just walking to the grocery store to do SOMETHING physical each day.[/quote]
Well said. I believe enough Sci-Fi authors wrote about and accurately predicted exactly where we stand today. Sophisticated electronics entertain us to the point were we have to find “busy work” just to get out of the TV chairs. I love washing my old beat up car for therapy.
Another thing that I personally have missed is writing. I’ve posted way too much here just because I’ve physically missed writing, and of course to communicate in my mother tongue. Picking up the phone and chatting with someone can keep you in touch, but how often do you really say something meaningful to someone on the phone? Writing a letter has become a dying art.
The future generation anno 2030 will become lazier, fatter and stupider than we can imagine today, and they’ll all be calling it progress.
