That's what we have become. While Hurricane Irene spared Baltimore storm surge and extensive flooding, the saturated ground and high winds caused massive tree damage. This resulted in power outages throwing over 700,00 Marylanders back to a pre-electricity age.
While our home was not affected, many friends struggled with day-to-day living without electricity's life's blood flowing through their veins. Besides the luxuries we now take as essential like TV and Internet, they lacked refrigeration and running water -21st century necessities. This got me thinking about life during the millennia prior to our addiction to the electromagnetic interaction of subatomic particles.
Before electricity, Sol Invictus rode his quadriga across the skies ruling our lives. We rose at sunrise and most activities ended at sunset. Yes, first tallow, then candles, then gas lights shed some nocturnal illumination. But until Edison's incandescent invention, darkness dominated half our day.In this hectic world, many yearn for simpler times when life seemed uncomplicated and guileless. If only we could return to those innocent days, we'd have more time for myface, twitbook, catching up on our DVR recordings of Jersey Shore and reading my blog - as ever BB
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile..." - Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
