H.K. Belvedere Ω

Comfort makes you lazy and less hands on. I was thinking about my ancestors, all those tools and stuff my Grandfather kept, how he could repair and fix most things himself. This was standard back in the day. People had no excess money to pay for repairs.

So when the car or the boiler broke down at home. The first course of action was to attempt a repair yourself. When you don’t have another option, you have to find a way. You notice this with people from poorer counties in Africa, the Middle East and EE

When their cars break down. They will strip to bits and try and fix it, because they don’t have any money for a new one or for a garage to repair. In the prosperous West, we lost this. If my shower breaks today, I would not try and fix it.

My first port of call would be to pick up the phone. (Unless it was a very basic fault like a fuse in the socket) but that is my limit. I would be pretty screwed if I had to repair major things by my own hand.

And it’s not because I’m stupid or can’t do it in theory. I just never had to think about that growing up or in my own adult life. Whoever made that meme - weak men create hard times etc etc. It was the most accurate meme ever made.

We are shadows of our former selfs. This is applies to most people. We are much lazier, selfish and less adaptable to new environments . Our forefathers were far stronger because they had to be.