January 11, 2008
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Weekly Photo Challenge, “Dependence”
the subject from butterflyxlife is:
“Dependence”
I really hate the word dependence. It conjures up all the ills of the world.
Few of us could survive without dependence, now, on from someone who provides the food we eat to the clothes we wear to the medications we use to the production of motor driven vehicles which have replaced our legs. I find it to be a sad state of affairs as all of us are dependent in some way and most to the point of addiction though inadvertently.
Partial Definition: the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, or support, reliance on and a state of being psychologically or physiologically dependent on a drug after a prolonged period of use. And I would add here we are dependents on oil and cars or transport to the point of addiction as most of us would not give our cars or transport up.
Recycled photos for this challenge …
In the not so long ago past the road system was less sophisticated made of gravel and mud. We didn’t do as much traveling long distance. If we did, a horse and buggy or a wagon was used.
When mechanized machinery came about it changed our world from one of backbreaking labor to less strenuous. Where we had used horses to plow fields we graduated to tractors which could do more work in less time. The downside was the pollution created from the fuels needed to operate the machinery. The upside we didn’t need to have as many babies to do the farmhand work.
The fact is, with tractors able to do more we still had to many farmhands even though we had less babies so a large portion of the population moved to cities to work where subdivisions were built where you could barely till a small garden and you could not have a cow if you wanted one. As food was no longer grown at home you had to go to a grocery which living in a division was some miles away so no walking, you bought a car and you drove it.
No horses in the city but cowboys still exist so modern cowboys rode two wheeled horses that could carry them farther and faster than any horse in existence.
Schools were no longer within walking distance so we had to have buses.
And lots of trains to ship the food stuff fast and eventually trucks took over the majority of that role.
And to think of staying home and playing board games or entertaining with talents you developed is absurd as it’s more fun to ride around in circles in cars looking for whatever you might find within the circle. In my youth we called it joyriding but now I call it sad.
Would you call this dependence? and a road to addiction?
Keep on taking those photos,
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Comments (15)
All great photos!
Reg and I use public transport a lot as neither of us drive so we are dependent on that. We like to walk though which is a good thing!
The iconic American yellow school bus photo is tops here for me.
i just love the first two photos especially. how do you manage such clarity with image???
on a philisophical note i think i fool myself if i thought i was independant. i need everything around me-really need it- to make my world move smoothly. at the same time if tv, internet connection go I can manage, if gasoline is impossible to get- well that is difficult to even think about as is shortage or stopping of water, electric or oil- and God forbid the grocery stores have problems with stocking because in this cold climate i don’t have food squirreled away. i need people around me off and on- more on than off. and i need them to be present in the moment not taking their thoughts somewhere else. yes definately dependant….and did you cut and paste those faces in the VW!
Nice photos… thanks for sharing!
I love your take on this theme – how very true it is, unfortnately!
And another Ohioan – hurray! I’m on the north side of Dayton – perhaps we’ll cross paths sometime!
Personally my favourite is the photo of the railway wagons. Now there is a surprise! Who would ever have guessed! I think it was a neat trick waiting for the low level loader to come past so that you can see the industry on the other side of the track. Good One. The Bus is a good second, but sorry I must put a train before a Bus, otherwise I wouldn’t be me.
Fantastic post Becca.
thank you for spelling that word correctly- that was bugging me! Great post on the subject. :0) Hope you are enjoying the New Year!
Great photos for this topic.
Good photos. They really depict our dependance on various modes of transportation!
Btw, I was wondering how 3 people fit in the back of that VW? Wow.
Good post, I enjoyed it. When I was a teenager at college I used to work on the local farms in the summer for extra money. On one I had the pleasure of driving a John Deere, but it was beast compared to the one you show here.
Great post.. love your pictures. Yes, we are all dependent on the roads that lead to whereever we need to go!
wow! great pictures! I love the post !
Have a fun week ahead !
Yes when you say the word “Dependence” it conjours up all sorts of bad ideas, and those make you forget the things we all really depend on like you say the roads system, the transport we use, our internet connection!! thats one i know about, and the one most of us forget, our health, great post!
Great pics..loved the last and first ones the best!