only had to do with “love” in exceptional cases. Children were needed to feed you in old age.
Five droughts were recorded in Germany around the year 1240, similar to that in 2019. This is evidenced by “Hungersteine” (“hunger stones”) that served as famine memorials in rivers, which had showed up again for the first time in 2019. There were no trucks and no water pipes. Thousands starved to death. First, the old people were left to starve and then the children. Survivors were marked for life.
In contrast, about 1600 people had experienced a cold period. The sun was at its “Maunder Minimum”, as sunspots had become extremely rare. The result was the Thirty Years’ War. This war may have triggered by the Defenestration of Prague and different political and religious objectives within and outside the territory of the Reich at that time, but the cause was certainly the migration of people as well, which was triggered by the cold temperatures. As a result of the effects of the war and the associated epidemics, famines and rabid wolves, the population was so decimated that no one believed in a possible recovery.
The Holy Roman Empire had no bathing facilities. In the Middle Ages, communal bathing establishments did exist in urban areas, but these were closed again for moral and hygienic reasons. Even in baroque castles you had to search a long time to find any bathing facilities. These were the high times for Europe’s perfume makers. The ordinary citizen in town or out in the countryside had to resort to the wooden tub. Travelers to Italy were not welcome there because of their body odor. Showers had not been invented yet.
When the farmer and his wife went to church, they came from the fields and often had to march to church for hours. That’s why the churches stank. Pastors often burned incense as a remedy. The social elite could already afford a lot at that time. Incidentally, the Native Americans employed the same method after the Spanish sailors had invaded America and brought their deadly diseases with them.
As far as the economy was concerned, most people worked in the fields or raised livestock. One farmer was able to sustain about five people. There was no social security and there were no kindergartens.
Colicky kids (“Schreikinder”) existed even back then. While their parents worked in the fields, their kids had to be kept quiet. Probably some of them had to be tied up. Another method was common as well: a pacifier trenched in beer or poppy extracts/opium was put in the mouths of children – lethal, but highly effective and certainly “organic”, even by today’s standards.
As far as education was concerned, compulsory schooling was introduced at the beginning of the 19th century. Learning meant multi-class, teacher-centered teaching. The cane was the means of choice when teaching discipline and the curriculum to students. This was the “pedagogy” of the time.
Until the introduction of forensics through genetic fingerprinting (DNA detection) a few years ago, it was not possible to convict many criminals, especially sex offenders.
Now to our terrible present time and its “plastic waste”.
The Terrible New Times
Regulations and rules can be found wherever you look. Only rules, standards and guidelines abound. It starts with vehicles, where “dual-circuit braking systems” have become mandatory. Even bicycles require two brakes. If you happen to question whether or not to allow those new electric scooters on the road and where and how – you’ll certainly be slapped with an anti-innovation tag!
Only officially permitted seeds are allowed to be grown, too. Vacuum cleaners as well are subject to an EU regulation that they mustn’t consume more than 900 W of power. The new EU regulations on factory farming define exactly everything when it comes to new barns, even the minimum amount of light required. Statics must be created for every house. The electrical system must be installed by an electrician. You aren’t allowed to do it yourself. Smoke detectors must be installed in every house. A mechanism is required for a window to open whenever a kitchen hood is operated together with a chimney. Cucumbers are normed according to their curvature and length. Carrots, too. Acrylamide is prohibited – very dangerous!
Tons of plastic are floating in the ocean. That’s why plastic straws and plastic bags have been banned (no joke). Cars have become more confusing to operate than ever before. Nicotine is toxic. Of course, nuclear power plants have been banned to avoid their nuclear waste. Now high-voltage lines are to be erected again, but these weren’t necessary in the past. Wind power plants are just standing around and blocking the view. They’re killing the birds, bats and insects. We have HIV. We have to get vaccinated for many more diseases than in the past. Car companies are constantly cheating on their fuel consumption figures. By the way: How come you don’t use “real” tires? The wicked automobile lobby’s to blame!
Everything everywhere is toxic. Roundup, nicotinamide, everything. Away with it all! To compensate, just blow your dog’s excrement around with your leaf blower. Dangerous when that stuff gets into your lungs as dust.
Everything is being genetically manipulated. Laundry detergents, dish washing detergents and basically everything else. Bioplastics are, of course, only possible thanks to that wicked genetic manipulation.
Trees are allowed to grow “naturally”, even grafted ones. Man must interfere with everything. Every farmer nowadays sustains far more than 100 people. This must be stopped! The best way to do this is with three-field farming. It's being taught in school again these days that this is best way to do it.
In the past fifteen years, bedlam has become commonplace in the classroom. The cane may have become extinct, but now some teachers only dare to enter their classroom with their cell phones in order to avoid being beaten up. There’s a shortage of teachers and suitable classrooms as the population had grown again. 700(!) teachers have resigned in Germany in Berlin in 2021, especially in natural sciences and math. The introduction of digital media has become an attempt to remedy these deficits, i.e. no discipline and incoherent teaching content. However, this has lead to a syllabus overload.
All you see is gridlock. The train’s never on time, too. The Hamburg opera house now officially costs € 850 million instead of the initially projected €77 million. The Berlin Brandenburg airport should already have been completed by 2011 and finalized in 2020 (for a standard flight traffic already too small). Train station “Stuttgart 21” has become a financial disaster. The military projects NH90, A400M and the Eurofighter were completed more than ten years too late. Actually, there’s no project in the recent past that hasn’t already experienced delays like this. Anti-nuclear protests and climate protests abound wherever you look.
And you have to get vaccinated and take stupid drugs. All stupid coertions! Homeopathy is much better!
At school you have to deal with physics and mathematics. The law of conservation of energy – for what purpose? Statistics – what nonsense!
Fashion – Perfecting the Body
In the past, food was used to get calories (or joules) into your body. Today, people chase an aesthetic ideal by avoiding calories. In ancient Rome, slender was by no means the aesthetic ideal. Obesity was probably the fashion. Prosperity was seen in “love handles”. Having a “noble pallor” was the fashion two hundred years ago, as this indicated that you didn’t have to work in the fields. Later, the tan became fashionable because it demonstrated that you could afford a vacation in the sunny south.
The latter, or “toasting” yourself in the sun, had been taken to such an extreme that skin cancer had become the inevitable result. A noble pallor had, in contrast, presumably resulted in a vitamin D deficiency.
Fashion is something that would most certainly ruin
your health whatever the time you lived in.
It’s the ideal that changes over time.
Delusional Causes
In order to be able to evaluate these kinds of systems like modern agriculture, which has undergone a centuries-long optimization process, you have to evaluate them and, to do