Submitted 2 weeks ago by HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
…when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun.
Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.
Before the mechanical loom. The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time. It would take just as long to hand make a sail for a viking ship as it would to make the whole rest of the ship.
The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time.
That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…
that also has disappeared?
I’d say that’s on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there’s not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda…
One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there’d be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.
yeah sorry for the wording i was running into character limits
there is a textbox as well, besides the title
Rule 2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
As soon as people were people they started expressing themselves. If they ever stop, they’ll be something else imo