Back in the day we ate food without a concoction of chemicals. Back in the day we were clean without torturing bunnies. Back in the day our clothes were cleaned without killing a few fish. Back in the day we medicated from the garden without antibiotics.
I’m talking old-wives-tales day here. Granted we did some pretty stupid things back in the day, but the things we used to clean with were harmless and effective. The things we ate were nourishing. The things we did to medicate (not including those tentative times when a headache could have your brain drilled into) were spot on.
This is a strange time to live in. Called the information age, we think we know everything, and yet we can be so fundamentally stupid. Rejecting modern advances because they weren’t mentioned in an archaic novel. Accepting decades-old medicine over thousands of years of effective treatment. We medicate symptoms without ever healing the real problem. We poison ourselves with what we eat and wash with. How did we get here?
It has never been easier to find immediate solutions and answers. Just yesterday I ran out of window cleaner and one quick question to my smartphone and I had a homemade recipe using 3 kitchen ingredients that I already had. All you ever need is a lemon. Life hands you lemons because they fix everything. In no time at all we can do things a little smarter and a little simpler, like they did back in the day. Let’s move forward with what worked and toss (reduce/reuse/recycle) what doesn’t.
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