It’s not Knife Obsession Disorder, it’s being smart. Things happen and when they do, almost always you only have what’s on your person - why anybody today would not carry a decent knife at all times is beyond my comprehension. Any manufactured item, such as a good knife or sleeping bag, then becomes a useful and appreciated luxury, but not a dire necessity!” Because of confidence and practice, when one learns to live off the land entirely, being lost is no longer life-threatening.
Without negating the wisdom of preparation and safegaurd, I would say that philosophy behind this modern dependency is still a dangerous one. “It is asserted from time to time that true survival is measured by a person’s capacity to stay put and prepared with a super pack of hauled-in safe-gaurds that learning edible plants and trapping and hunting skills are not necessary since most lost persons are rescued within seventy-two hours anyway. Hope you don’t mind me taking the liberty here to share Larry Dean Olsen’s Philosophy of Caveman from his book Outdoor Survival Skills first published in 1967. Being a practitioner of primitive living skills having attended many primitive skills symposiums and gatherings, I can attest to women being just as proficient with cutting tools - in fact some of the best hide tanners I ever seen are women.
Interestingly we RELY on these things today, but most people do not need, and therefore use, these skills today.Ĭutting Tools most matter is already separated for us by a machine or cut by a specifically designed tool.įire now comes through a copper wire or is under the hood of our vehicle or other machine and,Ĭordage, which once held man’s life together, has been replaced by the nail and adhesives.Īll that said, knives are “in” some folks DNA and I would argue it is because of the fore mentioned. From these three things everything else can be built and as such why we have civilization. The foundation of man’s ‘first skills’ are cutting tools, fire and cordage.
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