| "The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary | | | | they have caused to themselves, usually when it |
| life" consist in making clever use of things and | | | | is too late, in moments of a fire or earthquake. |
| receiving help from other individuals, which were, | | | | Then being burned to death or crashed to bits is |
| in the past, praiseworthy. In modern times, | | | | part of the cost. But some of those who survive |
| however, instead of being healthy practice, they | | | | these disasters may know what the matter is: " |
| have proved harmful because they "prevent | | | | the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary |
| people from developing into truly strong and | | | | life" have helped prevent people from developing |
| independent individuals. " | | | | into truly strong individuals. |
| To utilize things used to be a marvelous deed, and | | | | Similarly, to be dependent used to be no vice, and |
| people who perform such deed were generally | | | | to help other people a virtue. They helped, in |
| held as wise and important. The wind and river | | | | primitive times, the weak individuals form into |
| water were thus used to help the humans do | | | | stronger bodies of men (armies, nations, etc. ) so |
| useful work, wild plants and fruits were | | | | as to tackle natural forces that would be |
| discovered as useful for feeding our mouths or | | | | overpowering when tackled by isolated individuals. |
| curing our diseases, and animals were trained to | | | | Nevertheless, in contemporary times they are no |
| be our companions or workers. Owing to this | | | | longer healthy and have stopped to be a virtue. |
| brilliant utilization, the human race became much | | | | Fathers have traditionally been confused about |
| stronger and more independent than their | | | | what their children need. However, in cases where |
| primitive ancestors, and finally prevailed on this | | | | our great grandfathers answered " a good beating |
| planet Earth. We never find out who first | | | | is what they need," modern fathers visit the |
| discovered and made use of these, but we are | | | | expert of education, asking him to tell them about |
| so proud of them and worship them so much | | | | their own children. And many elderly, wealthy, and |
| that each nation has been claiming that it is their | | | | important people visit the "psychological center," |
| ancestors that first performed those marvelous | | | | consulting a woman twenty years younger about |
| deeds. | | | | whether they are out of their minds... |
| That is not the case in modern times, however. | | | | In the past, help was given by the abler, wiser |
| We have been using such things, and in such | | | | and better-off people, to those who were really |
| manners, that now we call them "luxuries and | | | | dependent: the less able, less wise and worse-off |
| conveniences of contemporary life. " We use on | | | | on their way to becoming independent. Nowadays, |
| our desk an object the size of a small box, and | | | | help is given without such distinction: we give help |
| therefore don't have to use our legs to walk to | | | | to other individuals so as to make a living, and |
| the shop to do shopping. We use an enormous | | | | such help is welcome because we can afford it. |
| object called "elevator," fixed in every building, so | | | | When help is given so randomly, far from causing |
| that we can get upstairs, again without using our | | | | people to become independent, it functions to help |
| legs. And that marvelous thing we call "car" is | | | | people become increasingly less independent. |
| going to cause an increasingly larger number of | | | | These bad consequences is a sign that, in the |
| people to stop using their legs in such a way that | | | | course of that great human progress called |
| the human legs are going to be two sticks sticking | | | | "civilization," we humans have been going to |
| to the body as luxurious decoration, like fashion | | | | extremes. Let's look into the problem before it is |
| trousers. Modern people realize what a great loss | | | | not too late. |