I hadn't considered the link between agency and planning, but you're quite right: you can't plan without agency. What's interesting though is that agency is worthless if you don't plan: I'm not sure if the two are really separate, or if it makes more sense to view them as two sides of the same coin. Hmm. This is worth some serious thought.
As for the different generations, I’d like to see a lot of the ideals, hopes, and dreams of the Lost through early Silent Generation to come back in a big way: I think we’ll have to get used to being far more self-reliant, community oriented, and far more local. I think one of the biggest issues we have is that we’ve gotten so used to someone else doing everything for us we don’t think about what we can do, and for earlier generations that would be unthinkable. I sometimes wonder if it’s a coincidence that this mentality went away in the 1950s as the myth of progress took over, saying the future will by definition be better than today.
I think it makes sense to pursue a do it yourself ethos, and having food on hand seems like a good idea, but sleeping with a riffle by the cellar seems a little excessive. But I guess people who lived through really hard times probably would have issues, and from the stories I’ve heard the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression both count.
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Re: Lost skills
Date: 2020-08-27 07:31 pm (UTC)As for the different generations, I’d like to see a lot of the ideals, hopes, and dreams of the Lost through early Silent Generation to come back in a big way: I think we’ll have to get used to being far more self-reliant, community oriented, and far more local. I think one of the biggest issues we have is that we’ve gotten so used to someone else doing everything for us we don’t think about what we can do, and for earlier generations that would be unthinkable. I sometimes wonder if it’s a coincidence that this mentality went away in the 1950s as the myth of progress took over, saying the future will by definition be better than today.
I think it makes sense to pursue a do it yourself ethos, and having food on hand seems like a good idea, but sleeping with a riffle by the cellar seems a little excessive. But I guess people who lived through really hard times probably would have issues, and from the stories I’ve heard the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression both count.