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"Our daily life in the front country, back in “civilization,” is filled with conveniences that, while enjoyable, distance us from the changing nature of the world around us. This affords us a certain degree of comfort, time savings, and other advantages but comes at a severe cost, one of which is losing a certain degree of personal self-reliance and the skills needed to be highly self-reliant. These include acute environmental awareness and response. In civilization much of those and other skills simply aren’t needed. You don’t need to watch the weather because the weather is totally irrelevant to the question of where you’re going to sleep for the night or how you’re going to prepare dinner. Expand that irrelevance to many spheres of your life and you can see how rapidly and profusely life in the comforts of “civilization” dumbs down our capacities simply by removing the need for many of them. What you practice you become good at; what you don’t you gradually lose competency in." P14 (Falk, Ben – The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach)
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