With Venezuela in collapse, towns slip into primitive isolation

[Crow BarKeymaster]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/with-venezuela-in-collapse-towns-slip-into-primitive-isolation-idUSKCN1T823D

Read this one and take notes.

[OldMt WomanParticipant]

Personally I’d rather be in “primitive isolation” than in heavy population density under the circumstances they’re facing.  Except it would really be bad to lose modern surgery, diagnostic devices, etc.  Complex societies ….well, the more complex, the more fragile.  Systems are all intertwined and one broken strand can unravel faster than we can knit it back together.

OldMtWoman  🙁

[TolikParticipant]

We are talking rural people in a 3rd world country , my question is , how much different of a lifestyle is it for them ? People from places like that , can cope better than we could , because they grew up almost off grid .

[namelusParticipant]

For diagnosis I had a Chinese doctor who only took my pulse tell me I had a kidney stone….. maybe just need better old.tech…. they built things we stI’ll can’t what do we think of past ancients as less advanced? More skills and knowledge lost to time than exist now.

[Crow BarKeymaster]

I thought it was interesting how they made coffee into the defacto currency.

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