I was raised by parents and their buddies and friends that were born at the time of the “Great War”, did their youth in the depression, came to maturity and went off to World War Two, built the bomb, and established the greatest industrial giant in the world. They taught themselves, and we their children, how to do almost anything.
These skills wane. My grandfather worked the railroad, but built his own house as well. My father managed construction and built the house I grew up in himself until two in the morning six days a week after work. I built a lot of things, but not a home. I think my boys know and tackle many things, but not, perhaps as many as I did.
That going off into the world to make war is the mother of many skills.
“That going off into the world to make war is the mother of many skills.”
I never saw combat (between wars) but my Army years are still applicable to my everyday life, that’s for sure! Mainly by being organized, thinking a few steps ahead, still getting up at 4am - but these days, that’s just to pee, LOL!
My (now adult) boys can grow food and hunt and fish, but they’re lacking in many other skills, IMHO.
But, that’s just MY opinion. If the next war is strictly a cyber-war? They’re all over that, LOL!
Yes; a lot of us are self taught.
But remember; we grew up when things were actually FIXABLE!
Today it is economically incorrect to repair any complex thing that is broken.