Quote from: thehun on Today at 05:49:57 PM

Quote from: BADecker on Today at 04:38:34 PM

Life is returning to normal. What is normal? Prior to about 300 years ago, people had to slave to make a living, just to survive.

Think of what it is like to make everything you have from scratch. Make your clothes, build your house, grow your own food, teach your kids at home, do everything for yourself... except when a few families got together and helped each other out.

The last 300 years is where we got to do all kinds of things never done before. What other time in history did average families have cars and super-highways to drive them on? Whoever heard of TV or radio and other forms of communications we take as normal?

The last 300 years has been a departure from the normal. Time for us all to wake up to what normal was for thousands of years.

Things are returning to normal, even though it is happening through a fake-Covid pandemic.

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I don't really see it as a return to the past, but rather a shift in the present. I mean, we have the technology (especially the Internet and everything it allows), ways to produce cheap energy and food, we give more value to human life and the general level of education has improved drastically. Will we see a reduction of consumerism? Yes, of course, there was never a real need to get a new car every 5 years, or to go on holiday to another continent once a year. But I don't think we will have to start growing our own food and that kind of stuff (although many will choose to do it if they can).

With regard to the past, there isn't any such thing as a shift in the present. There is only the present, which differs from the past. Any shift that is being done is a simple changing of present into what suddenly becomes past. And, this is what always has been done and happened. So, since it has always been done this way, everything is operating normally right now.

The reason a person might think that things are not normal now, is that he hasn't experienced enough of life to know that there is always change. He might be losing some of his toys or freedom right now, but it isn't normal to him because it never happened to him before. But it has happened to lots of other people in many different ways.

The biggest normal that has ever existed is the normal of people doing it all for themselves, except that they had a little help from a few friends.

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