what is austerity and when is the time of austerity?

Answer 1

It means like plain Jane, lack of adornment. A time of austerity is when you need to be financially conservative.

Answer 2

It is having to exist with the very basic amount of a substance. In times of war the food situation is austere, there is not very much of it and what there is is not luxurious. Poor people at the beginning of the century lived under austere conditions. The house would be furnished with only what was essential.Chair,table, bed. No luxury or comfort,everyone had to make do with whatever they had, as there was no money to be spent on anything but food.

Answer 3

To me austerity is hardship limited supply of basic goods war time is a prime example of this look to the second word war this was the most austere time of all people uprooted going out returning not knowing if they would have a home or posessions children evacuated families split up talk to those whowere there my Mum mary was evacuated from the Town of Hull East Yorkshire to a place called New Holland and she has told me countless time how she could see the fires burning as the germans bombed Hull ( it was like Liverpool A strategic port)

Answer 4

War time is austerity time. In WWII Britain, people had to donate things like their iron fence to the military so they can be converted into bullets for ammunition.

There was prohibition in using sugar. Everything had to be rationed for everyone to survive.

The furniture made was called "utility furniture". All the time, they served for a purpose, and not just as a decorative object. And there were lots of built-in furniture (e.g. ironing board that can be folded directly into a cabinet/cupboard, under the sink, etc).

These objects were built to last, that's why we can still find a lot of them around.

After the war, DIY became the norm until around the 1960s when world was in for another change.

Answer 5

Austerity is not a normal sustainable state of being in human life. It is in fact a domineeringly defensive attitude that is consequential to some imbalance or disruption in the original state of mind. Overbearing and unnecessary exuberance in life as well as lack of security, threats and desperations in basic needs in circumstances can make people act needlessly powerfully and strenuously towards others, and themselves as well. The poor, for example, can grow very cruel in desperation; when the very need for survival is under threat, people tend to grow relentless and selfish toward the fulfilment of their own needs.

Austerity imposed by the few but endured by many can have many forms. Oppression is often a clear manifestation of austere behaviour that the uncertain powerful adapt towards the weak and vulnerable. The conditions that nurture such behaviours often come from, as I mentioned before, either excess or scarcity. Desires for power, absolute purity, and the needs for survival in the best possible form around, all can drive people over the edge of what is normal, considerate, understanding, compassionate, tolerant, flexible and genuinely strong and therefore acceptable in behaviour.

Austerity, I feel, has a certain ring to its being in the mind, as it is not always like simple cruelty, or plain harshness, or selfishness. It is to do with something that is a result of something wrong deep down, a self-imposed injustice in a person, to the austere himself or herself. There is often a moral purpose, or ethical principle that is use as a guise to be austere. This is then called firmness for measure of strict discipline. When firmness or measure for strict discipline start becoming austerity is always debatable between people. It is never clear-cut and easy to detect.

But if a behaviour is decidedly austere then something intrinsically is not right, something that is not right with the people who have to be austere in life, something that makes them senseless towards tender, gentle and sensitive side of human nature in human conduct, something that make them narrowly purposed in our hot pursuits, may be something that they endured at times when they were weak and vulnerable.

Answer 6

Austerity is behaving against the culture of consumption in which we live in. Acquiring and wearing things that we really need, and never put our personal value on the things that we possess and display to others.