Today there are expensive houses built on land that 100-years ago that house would never been built there, no matter how great the view may be. It's too far from town. It isn’t farmland. With the exception of the timber, such land is worthless. The only reason such land is valuable these days is the automobile made the land valuable.
Automobiles define us by
social status, wealth, age, class. Education define us. Social standing is how we are viewed. It’s what we are. Heck, even our expensive cell phones define us,
rather they are paid for or not.
These days hardly anyone can believe someone can be happy without a refrigerator and television. In this current culture of convenience, when someone goes off grid people say they’re crazy. Their own close kinfolk will say they're insane, out of their mind.
There used to be a time in America when people helped each other. If there was a poor family in the community, neighbors would try to help them. Now, in this culture of convenience, the neighbor calls Child Protective Services.
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