Millennials have been indoctrinated to admire primitive cultures and to despise their own civilization. Why in the world would any civilized American want to revert to primitive societies or to the way of life a century or so ago?
Diana Gabaldon described the hard life of the 18th and 19th centuries best, "People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed into tiny, stifling cottages, lit and warmed by smoky peat fires. The only thing they did not do together was bathe - largely because they didn't bathe."
Like I used to say in jest to southerners asking me in 1978 if we bathed in Romania, "we bathed once a month whether we needed it or not."
Of course, in reality, our bathing was predicated on whether we got hot water or any water at all. The communists had their own secret schedule to keep us starved and in need of water. Heat (via steam) was optional in winter.
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