POLL: Do you ever wish you had Wilderness 'survival skills' like our more primitive ancestors?

Jan 27, 2011 by | Posted in Polls & Surveys

Question: I sure do! Building a hut out in nature and growing my own food (if I knew it) seems a hell of a lot more liberating than spending 40 hours a week for the rest of my life being someone else's female dog!

Answer: Be careful for what you wish for. As soon as you start exploring the skills, it has a tendency to "suck you in". There are so many skill sets to explore that you could never exhaust them in a single life time. Tracking, medicinal wild plants, escape and evasion,

| Jan 28, 2011

nope, I watch survivorman

Mormos | Jan 27, 2011

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Dealing with Life

18.05.12

Poverty has been the norm, xenophobia (fear of the "other") has been not just pervasive but necessary to survival (if you saw someone who looked different from you in primitive times, it likely meant somebody was going to try to kill you... or worse.), and life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today.

Somehow, we survived and flourished and created the nearly miraculous civilization that we now enjoy – at least in the West.

But somewhere along the way, we began to think of ourselves as fragile. Nowadays it seems that any setback is a tragedy, any distress a trauma, and any minor injustice a case for legal action.

Children are commonly given psychoactive medications for any and all fluctuations in mood, or any deviation from what somebody in a position of authority considers to be the norm.

Source: Right Side News

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