We as a people are so dependent on technology that we would be in utter distress without some things. I say if you took away all fuel (gasoline,diesel and fuel oil) we would be in a total clusterf**k because we need to get to work,heat our homes...and truckers need the diesel to get trucking(on that note....w/o truckers we wouldn't eat because we are dependent on people providing our food)....any insight?
2006-12-02 03:04:32 · 17 answers · asked by hoagie13365 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I say do it. Take away fuel - the benefits are enormous.
Initially there will be chaos, but once we calm down it will begin to make sense.
People will work closer to home - a lot more people will be employed.
Businesses will switch their focus and develop products geared toward communities and not mass produce and package junk that turns into garbage heaps.
Much less automobiles, more walking, less obesity, more physical exercise, home cooked meals. We will talk to our neighbors once more. Extended family will return. We will become more familiar with our community and work toward improving it more.
Not to mention less pollution.
There is more, but I'm sure to see where I'm headed.
2006-12-02 03:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all did at on time manage with far less than we do now, and none of it instant either. We would do it again if it came to that because survival is necessary to the species.
Our dependence on technology is convenient, but we would eat, as others did before us, in season and with a garden or local farms. Hunting and fishing for meat. Our work too would be more local with towns being important for some, and not so important for others. We have only lived like this for the last 150 years or so of the human experience, barely a blink in history.
The one thing you could take away from society that would create a permanent state of chaos, and not just economic difficulty, is the lack of etiquette. Not dramatic, but when you eliminate the rules of behavior, you lose civilization, and become no better than the strongest, if not the brightest. I'm not talking just which spoon to use, but the rules of who is first in ranking in family and country, and who you protect and who is expendable.
We are an orderly bunch, with a distinct pecking order, and how to recognize the person in charge, and what accoutrerments are necessary to acknowledge that superiority transcends all races and tribes and exists in every country.
Without that recognition we would not honor the policemans request to stop at a traffic light, or the priests qualifications as a man closer to God, or the law as a judge has decided it to be.
2006-12-02 03:17:28 · answer #2 · answered by justa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take a away computers the world would go into chaos. So many things are dependent on computers. I'm not just saying the PC, it's also the computers in things we use everyday. People, now, have become so dependent on things, it's made the world lazy. We have technology to do everything for us. You take it away and people won't know what to do.
2006-12-02 03:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Britt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you got the most important one but I'd put Police in there too, or should I say the fear of being punished. Many would say the internet but with a little creativity letter writing and the phone could take up the slack pretty good, even though most would be bitching and this site would be hurting bad.
2006-12-02 03:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many things.
1. Transportation
2. Phones
3. Organized government
4. Police Protection
5. A unified money system
2006-12-02 03:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by luvmelodio 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Electricity.
2006-12-02 03:07:46 · answer #6 · answered by tamara_cyan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
money they say it keeps the world goin round....and without money how could you get your fuel are you going to kill for your own food because I'm not doing it for you unless you pay up.there isn't a thing in this life that is free besides love and all emotion.
2006-12-02 04:46:02 · answer #7 · answered by mudcat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fuel is the first one, ur right.
telecommunications and related stuff would be a close second(including internet, satellite and mobile phones). u might think computers, but without communication, we'd fall apart completely.
2006-12-02 03:11:39 · answer #8 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
electricity and the ability to make it...look at what happens during storms and black outs? Utter chaos
2006-12-02 03:09:12 · answer #9 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The freedom to practice religion.
2006-12-02 03:06:31 · answer #10 · answered by Robert B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋