[TheForge] The new becomes the old (was: "new" blacksmithing processes?)

[Bruce Freeman]

Frosty,

Interesting.  I've had similar thoughts on other subjects as well.  Think =
about a "traditional" farmyard.  What do you see.  House, barn, silo.  =
Oops!  How did that modern invention, the silo, get onto a traditional =
farm.  Silos haven't really been around all that long.  Nor, for that =
matter, have barns of the style(s) we think of as traditional.

But it goes on.  How about using plates and forks at dinner.  In colonial =
times it would be trenchers (sp?) and knives, with maybe a spoon for soup.

And eating habits?  Rememeber grandmother's "roughage"?  That was modern =
nutritional science of its day at work.  Now we know it as "fiber", but =
it's the same idea.

I won't belabor the point, but constantly we are assimilating new things =
into our culture so seamlessly that the next generation may not even =
realize how new those things are.  That would make an interesting =
off-topic of discussion!

Bruce
NJ

>>> "Jerry Frost" <frosty@customcpu.com> 05/14/02 02:24PM >>>
Morning George:

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"New traditional"? "Modern Processes"? Heck, everything was new before it
became tradition and stayed "modern" till it was replaced by the next new
thing.

It's just semantics George, perception and semantics.

Of course that's just my opinion and I could be wrong. <grin>

Frosty