{"id":21209,"date":"2016-06-23T16:39:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21209"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T21:39:50","slug":"why-we-do-things-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21209","title":{"rendered":"Why We Do Things the &#8216;Hard Way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Farmers-Hands.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Farmers-Hands-300x130.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Farmers-Hands.jpg 690x\" alt=\"farmer's Hands\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2016\/06\/23\/why-we-do-things-the-hard-way\/\">WHY WE DO THINGS THE \u201cHARD WAY\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">During the past year or so I have frequently wondered why we do things the hard way. Surely it is a lot easier to get a 9-5 job, drive a nice car, have a nice house, buy all our food and just live a\u00a0\u201cnormal\u201d\u00a0life? Okay, so that would most likely mean mortgage, car loan and credit cards, but everyone else does it, why not us? It is an attractive proposition for someone struggling to make ends meet whilst living the Permaculture Dream. I totally understand why we warn our students about\u00a0\u201cPermaculture Divorce\u201d, and I am sure a great number of people have decided to pull the pin on this grassroots living thing after doing it for a few years.<\/div>\n<p>When I grew up my parents wanted me to have everything that they did not. Having lived through World War II, they wanted my belly to always be full and they gave me as much as they could (which is of course greatly appreciated and understood!) Over the past 30-40 years I have seen materialism escalate to the social disease it is now. The problem now is that we as parents can no longer offer our children a better future than we had unless things change drastically. Kids are now said to not be able to live longer (in years) than their parents anymore. The world is sicker, more polluted and resources are running out. What future is there for our children?<\/p>\n<p>It is said that each person in the Western World has on average 100 \u2013 150 slaves working for them (in the form of fossil fuel). And that is beside the low paid workers that make all our\u00a0\u201cstuff\u201d, who may as well be slaves for the returns they get for their labour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY WE DO THINGS THE \u201cHARD WAY\u201d During the past year or so I have frequently wondered why we do things the hard way. Surely it is a lot easier to get a 9-5 job, drive a nice car, have a nice house, buy all our food and just live a\u00a0\u201cnormal\u201d\u00a0life? Okay, so that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14082,622,8748,2785],"class_list":["post-21209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-manual-labour","tag-permaculture","tag-permaculture-news","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21209\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}