Is Dutch for "one day."So this right here is my visual essay. I know it might take some explaining.
It's a visual list of all the things I used in one day. Not quite, because I forgot to take some pictures of things and deleted one so I could get a square number. But it's rough estimate.
Everything I used. From the lights I turned on to the cars I rode in to the freakin' toilet.
Total: roughly 81 things used in roughly 13 hours
Electric? 20 out of 81 things or about 25% of all the things I used in a day ran on electricity.
Modern? Meaning, something that your great-grandma wouldn't have taken for granted. Including indoor plumbing. 43 out of 81 or about 53%.
This is a little skewed because I went to Macy's and tried on like a ton of clothes that I didn't pictures of because I didn't want them thinking I was gonna steal it or something, but it's kind of evened out by that fourth row which is a bunch of pictures I took photos of and only counted as one electrical thing. In case you cared. Anyway.
Fifty three percent of the things I used in a typical day were things that a couple hundred years ago? Didn't exist. Or only existed for the very rich.
And almost none of these things existed in the form we know them today. Like I would for sure not have been able to go downtown and shop for a couple hours back in pioneer days. No way. There wasn't even a downtown here. Or a town.
So what's my point? That things change, I guess. There's stuff in Feed that seems freaky and weird and like "Holy shit they just went to a BEEF FARM." Gross. But if you took a hair straightener to Laura Ingalls Wilder? I bet she would freak. Like we'd freak if we saw someone with a feed.
And I bet she'd think we are lazy as all get out.
Basically, I'm not entirely sure if I'm trying to say that it's okay when things change, or if we live in a consumeristic society. Both, maybe. We consume like nobody's business (hello dress shopping for two hours) but that doesn't mean that "modern conveniences" are so bad. I mean, who decided that working for everything is a good thing? Who decided that? I don't think my life would be boring without chores.
And we're smarter than ever - at least our rate of change is progressing at an ever faster rate - at the same time that we're lazier than ever. That's an interesting thing to think about, right?
