>>12860048the amount of specialization in society has grown so great that the average person cannot make a fire for them-self without an effort or material help. The craft of once essential survival tools like Fire Drills are unknown to a large portion of society. Basic metallurgy is just a dream that i wish more people were knowledgeable about in the event of a collapse. Identification of essential materials, butchery,rendering plants for fibers, weaving and loom usage for basic shitty clothes , building of general longer term shelters, farming with crop rotation and knowledge of local symbiotic plants alongside local foreseeable
To a now highly specialized person these skills are all mostly useless and unknown aside from their concepts but in the even of an (unlikely) collapse we will grow closer to these skills becoming necessary.
I don't think we should have an education system focusing on these thing so much as it should a civil defense sort of initiative but the basic knowledge of mathematics up to calculus, chemistry, etc currently taught up to the bachelor level in the university system goes a way to ensure some capability of resetting back to the enlightenment in the event of a mass depopulation.
I don't think such an event would happen but i just feel that such skills are essential enough for personal survival that they should be more widespread
