The other opinion of luxuries life
Like the "many people," I find "luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life" are entirely harmless. And I call it absurd to believe that they prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.
We are dependent because we have no alternative. We are truly strong and independent because we have a large enough number of alternatives. Consisting in just such alternatives, luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life enable those who can afford them to be truly strong and independent.
Things were different in the old days, however. For food an average farmer and his family, for example, had to depend on the only crop grown out of the only piece of land. They had no alternative because, when that crop failed, they had nothing else to feed their stomachs with. Then they proved to be as dependent and weak as the fish that, entirely depending on the water, has to die when the pool is dried up. This dependence would grow worse when they fell ill. Diseases took place every year in the village. Hundreds or thousands of farmers were dependent on the same healer, who in turn was dependent on the few herbs he had learned to use from his father and grandfather. Often, this lack of alternative gave them no choice between life and death. And these individuals and their lives had to be extremely weak.
By "luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life" we mean the many alternatives that are available to the average individuals. Nowadays even a disabled man can go to work and earn a handsome salary because, besides lis feet, he has a large number of alternatives as means of travel. He can go to work driving his car. When his arm breaks down, he can use the taxi. When taxi drivers are on strike, he can use the subway. When workers of fie subway and bus drivers also join the strike, he obtains help from his relatives, who kindly offer to drive him a his office. He is thus largely independent and truly strong.
In the same way, we have abundant alternatives as for whom to go to when we fall ill, and have a large enough variety of medicines to choose from to cure our disease. And we can choose either to stay at home or in hospital while we are being cured, and either to have an old, reverent expert or a young, considerate nurse to take care of us. Further, these things and people will be at our service a few minutes after we have spoken into the phone. Conveniences of this type make us so much more independent and stronger than individuals without them.
For the young, the most marvelous luxuries and conveniences are those they enjoy when they acquire knowledge. In the old days, the student had the mere textbook to rack his brains with, the mere teacher to go to when he had a question to ask, and the mere library on the campus when he wanted to learn something else. Nowadays the luxury is such that, for clarifying a problem, he has access to the scientific papers by scientists all over the world. And the convenience is such that to enjoy this luxury he does not have to move out of his room. Rather, by comfortably sitting at his desk and moving his fingers on his PC's keyboard, he at any moment opens the door to a world of knowledge. This luxury and convenience ensures that he not only has access to the largest amount of knowledge, but also enjoys the largest freedom to choose what to know. If knowledge is still power, then this manner of learning helps make us the most powerful, truly strong and independent individuals in history.
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