Comments on: Bright idea number three, or something

By: Jann

Jann — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:08:29 +0000

It’s a good idea, to learn to live with less I mean, but it works best when people don’t have a choice. How many of the “teachers” do you think would want to continue to live with less once they got here? Some would, of course, like the father of one of my nurse colleagues in Buffalo, who lives by choice in a cabin in the woods without electricity. But I bet many, if not most, would “defect.” Within a year they’d have Blackberries anf flat screen TV’s… or are those things now considered part of the simple life?

By: mig

mig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:39:51 +0000

not to mention yesterday’s generation of spoiled brats.
should travel costs prove a problem, one could also recruit as trainers the following: local poor people, local old people who lived through the last depression, ethnic-looking actors.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:33:15 +0000

This is the cleverest thing I’ve read in a very long time. Oh yes, oh yes. Let’s do it. The idea may not be terribly profitable moneywise, but I think by turning this world insideout in this way, there would be a wondrous bit of empathy, understanding, and gratefulness in today’s generation of spoiled brats.