These are great comments; thank you everybody.
I do want to make it clear I am not anti-progress. As my favorite author, Robert A. Heinlein, pointed out in Time Enough For Love, all real progress has been made in the pursuit of ease — laziness, if you will. So, increased access to info, easier transactions, ability to do things heretofore unthinkable…all good.
And, yes, hardships DO still exist.
But, in my view, there IS a downside, in the attitude that many of us take when our ease is interrupted. It’s one thing to try to re-establish the ease we want. It’s another to resent hard work.
That’s my real issue…the resentment and attitude so many of us (me too) put on.
I wish I could find my slipstick from when I was younger and my dad showed me how it worked.
Thanks, all. –Brad
