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To: Neocon who wrote (1940)	11/20/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Greetings, Neocon. Have you ever read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series? What struck me even as a child was the enormous physical toil of everyday life and the constant dangers of various kinds. Yet I cannot help but wonder at times if modernization has freed people from one kind of stress only to toss them into others--for example, corporate restructurings and the like. I also find it a bit unnerving that most people that we encounter would have no idea of how to cope without the trappings of modernity. (I confess that I periodically use a slide rule just to remember how to use it.)

To: Neocon who wrote (1940)	12/4/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Just remembered this parable. I was pressed for time when you first posted. You make it sound rather idyllic! I'm sure she was a healthy and vigorous woman. It reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. He and I used to go round and round on the positives and negatives of modernism. His parents came from somewhere in Eastern Europe. His father told him that when he was a boy (the father), things were fairly bucolic around their town. For excitement, the owner of the market in town would freeze a shoe in a block of ice and put it in front of his store to melt. People would walk by just to see if the shoe was out of the ice yet. As he finished telling me this, he looked at me intently and said, "Now, do you want to live in a society like that?" I had to admit that I did not.