@TheDayisComing
"I am currently watching ‘Victorian Farm’ series and lamenting! Yes it is romanticising the Victorian age somewhat, but there was so much good in it! Every single thing they used was organic and degradable, usually useful, often recycled in a wholesome and useful way. Little to no wastage. No toxic chems and plastic, over processed food packed with additives and chemicals, no sensory blasting from technology and aggressive marketing that screams in your face day and night. Yes the coal and oil powered side was dirty no question, but it looked such a peaceful and wholesome way of life. People ate what they grew, knew the community farmers for meat, eggs, milk etc,went to bed when it got dark and got up with the sun rise. Hard work yes but we’ve lost ourselves in this technological labyrinth of a world. I’d happily give up the car to go back to horse power and a simple life!"
"Romanticising somewhat.." - no kidding.
The Victorians - child labour, chimney sweeps, rickets, cholera, workhouses, being owned by your employer so you had no choice but to do exactly what you were told, prostitution as the only option for wronged women, Navvies dying by the thousand building the canals and railways, lead poisoning, men abusing women and the woman being stigmatised for it, women dying in childbirth.
Even on your lovely farms - sepsis, incest, crop failures, damp cold houses, no central heating, no fridges.
The Victorian times were brutal. The pre industrial times were brutal. The medieval period was brutal. The prehistoric was brutal. You can romanticise it all you like, but throughout history, a tiny number of people have lived privileged lives and the vast majority have been utterly oppressed and miserable.
That's not to minimise the issues being discussed here. It often seems that every problem society solves brings a new problem. We live in difficult times. But probably not uniquely difficult times.