Nostalgia for a past that didn't exist
07/10/08 19:18 Filed in: Personal
Dame Helen Mirren just suggested she'd like to live in the 19th century because "It wasn't polluted".
Oh really. Perhaps Dame Helen would like to tell us all how people heated their houses or cooked their food? Solar panels? Windmill power?
No... wood. Burning HUGE amounts of wood. Or converting it to charcoal and burning that.
How much wood? Enough to nearly deforest all of England to the point that the Crown had to create designated preservation areas.
You know I'm always fascinated by this, it was better in the past mentality. It really, really wasn't. If you got ill, you could die and what's more; there was nobody to help you or who would want to. There's poverty and starvation and death. Something that we in the UK don't really have to worry about because no matter how far you fall, there are opportunities to be helped.
But not in the 19th century. You fall from grace, you die. That's how cruel life was. And their are even people on YouTube who think that returning to that would be a step in the right direction. Little do they really know.
Oh really. Perhaps Dame Helen would like to tell us all how people heated their houses or cooked their food? Solar panels? Windmill power?
No... wood. Burning HUGE amounts of wood. Or converting it to charcoal and burning that.
How much wood? Enough to nearly deforest all of England to the point that the Crown had to create designated preservation areas.
You know I'm always fascinated by this, it was better in the past mentality. It really, really wasn't. If you got ill, you could die and what's more; there was nobody to help you or who would want to. There's poverty and starvation and death. Something that we in the UK don't really have to worry about because no matter how far you fall, there are opportunities to be helped.
But not in the 19th century. You fall from grace, you die. That's how cruel life was. And their are even people on YouTube who think that returning to that would be a step in the right direction. Little do they really know.
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