Might be that there are regional differences in this; in that way you see that there are different paths of development. I think for here it was more the path of monastaries being the core point of solitude to study, acquire knowledge and invent or discover things. If I don't remember it incorrectly, Mendel's laws, for example, were such a discovery that came from a monastary. Today, even in modern times, it is also rather the habit to leave off to rural areas if you want to shield yourself from the world and too much hubbub going on around you. But, nevertheless, I don't know if history has seen such a development in the rural areas here before: Even if you lived in rural areas, there was a basic range of services offered to you even when living in the village. Today this is on the brink of totally dying out. As the young people leave and the elder get left behind and they don't leave so easily where they live (tomorrow could always be your last day, so you want to do that stress to you in that situation or even speed it up by that?), it's only the elder left behind then in the villages and elder people aren't as fit anymore to take care of everything at the houses or travel far distances to town just to do your groceries (those you don't cover by your own vegetable garden).
Let's say, just pointing that a little more out: All those stuff with driving to other towns for business, when you're healthy you can do all that stuff in a pretty unlimited manner. Limited only by your other daily duties. But if your powers and senses already start to leave you, that's not such an easy business anymore. You've got a lot to do with getting along with yourself through the day then already.
Not to say: Isn't it even a little poor of plethora society to deposit services and goods far away from the people themselves, from its potentional customers (to speak in that terms)? I mean, either society lives in plenty or it doesn't live in plenty. When you live in plenty, what speaks against bringing some basic services to the villages - even if they hardly cover the costs of it? For covering the costs you got your business in the big downs which generate a whole lot of profit. In a way, this is a reduction of social services to society itself if people in rural areas have to drive to the next town to do anything.
And, just remember: There are still such unpopulated places in the world where fast internet is a dream! Or where phone services don't get to reach them, as it all only comes through wireless in those areas - and wireless can be jammed.
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Date: 28 June 2017 04:21 pm (UTC)I think for here it was more the path of monastaries being the core point of solitude to study, acquire knowledge and invent or discover things. If I don't remember it incorrectly, Mendel's laws, for example, were such a discovery that came from a monastary.
Today, even in modern times, it is also rather the habit to leave off to rural areas if you want to shield yourself from the world and too much hubbub going on around you.
But, nevertheless, I don't know if history has seen such a development in the rural areas here before: Even if you lived in rural areas, there was a basic range of services offered to you even when living in the village. Today this is on the brink of totally dying out.
As the young people leave and the elder get left behind and they don't leave so easily where they live (tomorrow could always be your last day, so you want to do that stress to you in that situation or even speed it up by that?), it's only the elder left behind then in the villages and elder people aren't as fit anymore to take care of everything at the houses or travel far distances to town just to do your groceries (those you don't cover by your own vegetable garden).
Let's say, just pointing that a little more out: All those stuff with driving to other towns for business, when you're healthy you can do all that stuff in a pretty unlimited manner. Limited only by your other daily duties.
But if your powers and senses already start to leave you, that's not such an easy business anymore. You've got a lot to do with getting along with yourself through the day then already.
Not to say: Isn't it even a little poor of plethora society to deposit services and goods far away from the people themselves, from its potentional customers (to speak in that terms)? I mean, either society lives in plenty or it doesn't live in plenty. When you live in plenty, what speaks against bringing some basic services to the villages - even if they hardly cover the costs of it?
For covering the costs you got your business in the big downs which generate a whole lot of profit.
In a way, this is a reduction of social services to society itself if people in rural areas have to drive to the next town to do anything.
And, just remember: There are still such unpopulated places in the world where fast internet is a dream! Or where phone services don't get to reach them, as it all only comes through wireless in those areas - and wireless can be jammed.