Polynesian navigation device - photo

[Toolmaker51]

Amazing how much we knowledge/technology the human race has lost over the years. Good stuff, important to real survival. As new ways are developed, the old are soon forgotten, especially those that were only recorded in the minds or those using them and passed down directly to the next generation.

I is becoming apparent we have invented our way into a corner. I do hope and pray we can find our way forward.

"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" is a hit song from 1969 by the American pop-rock duo of Dennis Zager and Richard Evans.

This certainly hits me center of mass. That perspective is addressed often, haunting me long as I can remember, and recently as yesterday. Usually it's related to trades, craftsmanship, cooking etc; those efforts that combine detail - intuition - knowledge of related pursuits. Then offshoring and idiotic dependence on a service economy. Then just as impactful, blind acceptance of the 'marketing' related to COVID-19 over logic, science, common health practices...
A long line of bank customers, 95% plus making special effort to stand directly on their floor sticker, maintaining 6 foot spacing. People masked; sitting lone on their front yard, in cars windows rolled up, walking without a soul around...