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primitive skills for when modern technology fails... - aleshanee - 10-27-2021
arrow making...
i learned these skills many years ago... and while i haven;t practiced it in a long time
i still have a whole box of flint and obsidian arrow heads i made from scratch.... plus
also around 150 pounds of flint and obsidian in large chunks anywhere from the size
of a small book to a shoe box.... all of which came from somewhere else since those
types of stone don;t exist on this volcanic island......
today i prefer to make arrows using modern hand tools, and also using nice straight
pieces of cedar lumber cut in a mill.... which i then cut down further and shape into
arrows.... even better is pre-cut arrow shafts bought from a supplier which are already
weighed and spine tested... and of course feathers in bulk straight from a turkey farm
which they heat sanitize so they can be shipped and bag up by the gross.... but i still
make all my arrows by hand.... and without the use of power tools or machinery..
....playing with modern high tech computers and devices is enjoyable.... but if you really
want to learn or sharpen some skills that will be rewarding in a way modern technology
cannot... try your hand at the primitive technology that our ancestors used for survival...
it will not only give you a new found respect for them.... but also help build new confidence
in yourself...
one day modern technology will fail... ..all of it... and the refined materials we so rely on
to keep the high tech machines of today working will become hard if not impossible to find
... .but even before that happens other things that could temporarily throw us back into
primitive conditions could happen.... and we could find ourselves forced to rely on only what
we can do with our bare hands to survive...... things like that happen to people all the time...
and are the basis for all the survival shows on tv and the internet.... most of which are fake
and a few of which are downright silly.... . but all of them should make us ask ourselves one
simple question...... how would we fare in a world like that?.... how well would you do in it?
..