how naive you think most people want to go back to the 17th century:dead::dead::dead::dead::dead:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
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how naive you think most people want to go back to the 17th century:dead::dead::dead::dead::dead:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Didn't the hippies try something like this and completely fail? Besides, I'm not giving up smoking pot so I can spend all day raising barns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Ben what you want is a very hard physical life and i don't think you would like it,also it would also bring about a very conservative and harsh outlook on life by most people under taking that lifestyle =17th century mindset.People like me used to a hard labour ,but you or others like you?
The 60s and 70s civilized the culture.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrimFusion
But there was a conservative backlash in the 80s because the elites, as it were, felt there was too much democracy in the 60s and 70s. With, of course, the women's movement and the environmental movement.
So, conservatives in the 80s [and today, of course] attempted to beat back gains made by women in the 60s and 70s.
Ya know, ultra rich, Christian, straight, white and privileged men want to rule without the interference of, well, everyone else -- ha ha!
Interview with Gloria Steinem - YouTube
President Richard Nixon on the Environment in 1970 - YouTube
Ben i have lived and worked in areas that are dominated by physical labour and the attitudes towards you or friends are not positive and you want more of that?
I grew up in a blue collar family, and their attitudes toward conservation and recent advances in climatology are healthy and enlightened; i.e. the opposite of russstafa's.
not where i have worked in the outback they would use you for football practice
Of course they used you for football practice (which I take to be a polite euphenism) and we're all sorry for you I'm sure. But you can't take your own sorry experience as predictive for others.