31 December 2020
First Episode of "Little house on the Prairie" Model life in Post-COVID-19 era?
I just happened to watch the old time TV show on internet. The TV drama-series "Little House on the Prairie" was first aired in 1970's US and later dubbed version of it was aired in Japan as well.
I liked the show but it seemed the stories in the show were mostly fiction or modified for the dramatic effect.
But the very first episode seems not since I read the original novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and compared to the episode.
It started with Ingalls family departing from the woods and found the place to settle down. They could have owned the land by cultivating the fields in accordance with Homestead Act of late 19th century, a pioneer period.
But they had to live in a very wild environment and had to deal with native people and wild animals. They had to dig the ground to make a well for water. They had to cut trees to make logs to build the house.
In a very small house, at first there was no floor boards and the roof was hood taken out from the horse carriage. What they had was only basic needs.
Our civilization is now on the edge due to the deadly flu and global climate change. It was because we try to have too much destroying the natural ecosystem. The modern system we rely on too much was found to be very vulnerable to such crisis.
It is time to rethink our way of life. "Little House on the Prairie" may be a good model of how one lives one's life without luxuries modern people have gotten used to.
The answer may be somewhat of that little wooden house or Native People, whom the family called "Indians" in the show.