Material civilization is a good thing

Nico 2022-04-24 07:01:01

Living in the materially rich America, a busy modern man was thrown into a primitive desert island overnight, and everything has to be restarted.
Collect and preserve drinking water, invent tools such as stone knives and axes, drill wood to make fire, fish and fish, eat cooked food, invent wound dressing techniques, invent primitive medical techniques such as tooth extraction, manufacture rafts, determine wind direction, record time, and create rock paintings Art, creation of primitive totems and spiritual worship... In four years, Chuck repeated millions of years of human civilization evolution.


In the process of watching the film, I kept discovering that material civilization is really a good thing. Things we take for granted, such as fire and anti-inflammatory drugs, the process by which humans create them is so difficult.





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Cast Away quotes

  • Chuck Noland: Hey, is all this turbulence from Santa and those eight tiny reindeer?

  • Chuck Noland: We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have.