Modern day progress is an illusion.

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I was in a village working in a very nice through terrace house compartively large maybe twenty or so mid victorian residences in a isolated row ........ quality houses originally and still now. Idyllic location meadows at the front woods at the back down the road it led to a more built up part of the village. It got me to thinking that in the past the original inhabitants must have travelled here by horse .........the seven or so miles to the city .........ah no there used to be a train station within a ten minute walk ......Obviously long gone. Disussing the travel arrangements 150 years or so ago with the lady that lived there and remarking they must have have used the local train ....she remarked " and they call it progress"

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the branch lines still existed ( yes naysayers we know it costs money unaffordable blah blah blah ) virtually no congestion reduced traffic on the roads, cleaner air, less noise.
The rail network this country had was once fantastic. The car is now rendering itself useless.

Progress ? Hardly and that's just travel ........when I grew up everybody knew everybody locally that's hardly the case now !

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Progress ? Hardly and that's just travel

The school run when I was young was what you did when you were late leaving the house for school. You ran instead of walking.

I was talking to a couple celebrating their 60th anniversary. They met when they were pre-teens and both working at the same "holiday" camp. Not Butlins but a shed in a farmer's field and the work was hop picking. They both think that progress has done more harm than good to the world.
 
I was talking to a couple celebrating their 60th anniversary. They met when they were pre-teens and both working at the same "holiday" camp. Not Butlins but a shed in a farmer's field and the work was hop picking. They both think that progress has done more harm than good to the world.
Progress is I guess based on your own values...

So did this 'couple' also tell you about the deaths back then from diseases that weren't preventable then but are now?

And I guess WWII (and subsequent conflicts) were a bit of a hoot...

But don't worry...

Quitters will soon bring us back to the 'glory days' :LOL:
 
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Ignorance was bliss.

Harold MacMillan told us we never had it so good. It was better than the war and rationing.

Kids didn't have mobile phones and porn so they played with 'things' and learned how they worked and to mend them.
 
If you contract any illness or disease please say to the doctor I do not want any treatment created in the last 100 years, no antibiotics etc. Live in the glorious past.
 
If you contract any illness or disease please say to the doctor I do not want any treatment created in the last 100 years, no antibiotics etc. Live in the glorious past.
In the future there should be a 'did you vote brexshit' box to tick or not...

If the answer is affirmative, healthcare should be refused forthwith!
 
There is a deeper philosophical issue going on here.

The progress of technology has resulted in a society inhabited with peopke living very different lifestyles.

Has the progress increased happiness?

Perhaps the growth of automation and the future need to massively reduce energy consumption might see some of these old values returning......

Of course the fact the world population has trebled in the last 70 years means society in the future could become slightly more crowded
 
Of course the fact the world population has trebled in the last 70 years means society in the future could become slightly more crowded

Work the numbers for the next 100/200/300 years, and yet we still spend millions funding artificial insemination.
The future looks very bleak, and there is no magic bullet.
 
There is a deeper philosophical issue going on here.

The progress of technology has resulted in a society inhabited with peopke living very different lifestyles.

Has the progress increased happiness?

Perhaps the growth of automation and the future need to massively reduce energy consumption might see some of these old values returning......

Of course the fact the world population has trebled in the last 70 years means society in the future could become slightly more crowded
Strange that people still complain about population growth, that bloke Thomas Malthus or whatever his name was moaned that more people meant less food for the herd, at that time the global population was only a fraction of what it is today.
Today people are better fed and watered than at any time in history which is why they have nothing better to get anxious about than Climate change.
 
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TB incidence (solid line) and mortality (dashed line) rates per 100 000 populations per year in England and Wales,20 1913–2016.
 
Work the numbers for the next 100/200/300 years, and yet we still spend millions funding artificial insemination.
The future looks very bleak, and there is no magic bullet.

Education of women, and reduced neonatal mortality, lead to drops in birthrate.

Bang.
 
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