Remember, as one gets older, the view of death changes ...becomes more acceptable. Youth seems to have a built-in self-preservation factor that's extremely strong. That grows weaker as time goes on.
I’m not so sure I agree.
In my experience, youth has an invincible complex, and the older you get and more aware you become of your own mortality, the more scared of death you get.
While I don't disagree, be careful that you don't over-romanticize the nomadic life of the Native Americans.
I hear you, man.
I have been guilty of both buying into the “noble savage” myth and the grass being greener.
It’s no wonder that I feel like the world really started going to shit right about 1968 – I was born in ’71.
It was a damned hard life, fraught with danger, and death was always damned close by. A simple wound, an accident, could become infected and one often died a painful death.
You seem to be missing that I would greatly appreciate that “damned hard” life.
We have been so disgustingly spoiled by technology, medicine and industry.
As much as I can see the flaws in Marxism, I can greatly appreciate what Marx and Nietzsche said about the dignity and self reliance that comes with hard work and seeing the fruits of your labor.
People who have to hunt, gather, farm and make everything manually if they want to survive have a real connection to their work.
If you don’t work, your family starves – if you do work, they eat. It’s a pretty simple morality and structure.
What we have these days is people, completely disconnected from their labor, working for some asshole they don’t like in a corporation that means nothing to them producing things they will never see (if they even produce, rather than just broker deals) all for nothing but a paycheck.
And the goal of it all it to make enough of this abstract, meaningless “money” to not work anymore and become worthless to society.
Trick is, though, that whether or not you have a cognizant understand of it, you have always been worthless to society. Once you retire and the world doesn’t crash that becomes painfully obvious.
It’s no surprise that the vast majority of men in this country die within 5 years of retirement.
