On second thought.

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While I sit here doing as little possible, sweating anyway, and actually still enjoying life even if incapacitated by the heat, I realize something. This is how life has been for the eons before air conditioning. Until mechanization and air conditioning and eight to twelve hour work days, when the world warmed, work stopped or at least slowed down a great deal. I have heard that summer is the best time for putting in fencing but I argue that it is only the best time to put in some kinds of fencing, the kind that was brought about by mechanization. Stone fencing was better put in during the spring or fall, and it was kept to a minimum. You only fenced small areas if you fenced at all.

Washington D.C. was closed down during the summer. If you really wanted to see your representative, you went to his house. Some of that may have been farm related, though I have some doubts that most people wealthy enough to be representatives didn't do much if any of their own labor. Sure, they might lay a hand to something if they were feeling their oats, or particularly particular about a specific part of the work, but it was choice not requirement. Still, most, I would guess, did closely monitor their financial and business affairs, and few of our forefathers had no farming interests. But the business of government was a fall, winter, and spring affair. That really isn't a bad idea.

While I would like to get some air conditioning, as it would make life somewhat easier and make it less difficult to live what has become a more normal life, I would much rather see the world change directions and decide that summer heat is not conducive to work. It might indeed cut into industry. It surely might slow down progress. It might do a lot of things. To be absolutely honest, I am positive those would be good things. I should also say, that what has become known as the American way would be forced to retreat back to what it originally was, not what it is today. Unfortunately too many people are vested in "making it" to even consider a downgrade. I don't see this happening unless electricity becomes vastly more expensive than it currently is.

On the other hand, our government is busily making energy prices rise, along with food prices and even unemployment. Regardless of what they say or what you think, merely looking at the results is enough to know the truth. And, I disagree with this form of manipulation. I notice, beyond the problems with social engineering already know, that when modifications are made the weakest suffer the most. The elderly die in droves in Europe when it gets too hot or too cold. Their economy simply isn't fit to see to the needs of all but the healthiest. The next in line are children. While some believe trimming the numbers to be a good thing, if we have any social obligation it truly cannot be to supporting young adults in squalor while allowing the truly needy to simply parish. The proof is always in the pudding and socialism always proves the same thing, that it no more cares for those in need than it has an functional economic plan.

How do you convince people to back off without forcing them to back off? I really don't know. Actually though, I don't think teaching is the key at all. People can learn things, but they can only learn what is taught (at best). My guess would be to arrange so that they can experience the proposition and choose for themselves. Most, however, are too used to air conditioned living, long hours (the successful), and getting ahead, that there really will not be a change. So be it. My post is merely a "what if".