Men Are Becoming... Something Else

I think many of you can identify with the idea that, as a child, one of the last things you wanted to do was to tell your parents you were bored. They could find something for you to do, but the chances that it would be something you wanted to do were low. Today, many parents feel like it's their job to keep their children entertained, often with a device, or with endless scheduled activities.
 
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Well, since I was born at the height of the depression, this video and others like it resonated with me to a certain extent.

Even we girls had to learn so much of these simple yet useful skills, plus more in some instances.

Poke fun at it all if you will, but in the long run, if just a few were required under adverse conditions, it's not bad to know how to use them.

There are all manner of books, films, etc., that let on know how we live without technology and were industrious, because we had to be. And, make no mistake, it all did build character.

My generation was truly a class act. I look at what is being produced today and shudder.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I haven't watched the video, but I've watched several like that; judging from the blurb and the thumbnail, I generally find them interesting.

I, too, am annoyed by the common practice these days to have someone with a foreign accent or, even worse, an AI voice with a foreign accent, narrate everything. We're being programmed to believe that someone from another country is more authoritative than an American would be. That was an actual directive by the networks a few years ago, that whenever an expert was needed for a story, to find someone from another country, or, if an expert from another country couldn't be easily found, then someone with some ethnicity other than Anglo-Saxon, or, if all else fails, a woman. As a consequence, and this part is my opinion, people putting podcasts together have accepted that a foreign voice is more credible than an American accent so we see this even in podcasts on American subjects.
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I always am fascinated by the fact that in movies, Romans speak English with a British accent.
 
I grew up in the outdoors, and our children did as well. Camping, fire building, cooking over a fire and such were skills all the kids had. The boys used those skills more that the girls did, as they enjoyed it more. On her first dogsled race, #2 daughter had a team that she hadn't properly trained. They just quit running around midnight, so she set up camp in the on the trail and slept in the sled until the dogs decided they were ready to run again. I did some knot tying instruction and fire building training, and all our kids were taught those skills, and my wife as well. Wife grew up in a small Iowa town and had never camped until she met me. Our honeymoon was spent half in a fancy, elegant hotel, and half camped in a tent on a beach in North Carolina. She never learned to enjoy sleeping on the ground however, so I tried to limit those, and we bought a small pop-up Apache camper trailer that made her life enjoyable. #3 son recently told me of his experience in Nebraska with friends who had planned a picnic and party around an open fire. Unfortunately it rained quite hard before the event and the friends were sad that there couldn't be a fire since everything was wet. #3 son simply said , "Watch me" and built a blaze in the wet using techniques he had learned here.
 
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