Thursday, 17 July 2008

Society - a short comment

A few years ago I marvelled at how many people are involved in my Breakfast.  This Blog brings it home too - what a huge web of relationships we are all in.  Easy to forget sometimes.  I was reading a collection of writings by Albert Einstein and he pointed out how indebted to society we all are.  Few of us grow our own food or build our own houses.  Culture and Language we owe to society.  

Somehow in the last few decades it seems to have been possible to adopt the (crazy) idea that it is possible to live alone and outside society - simply exchanging MONEY with society to get the things we need.

How different from life in the village when we would have known the baker, the farmer, the miller, the carpenter and their families.

The bonds and inter-relationships of society - so important and so neglected.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sometimes it is with these extreme experiences of life that we remember how good are the little things that mean so much.
For me, your blog means a little thing that can help others to deal with similar problems. I never saw someone talking about these things in such a open way.