A long time ago, most of the world's population (including people in powerful, successful, countries,) lived rural, downright agrarian lives. Yes, I used a word many of today's high school graduates would not recognize, be able to spell, nor to pronounce correctly if they were accidentally exposed to any reading material more difficult than a quick line on mytwitfacetube.com ... but that's another topic, though it does connect here also, so many things do.

When the world was mostly agrarian, towns sprang up to support the farmers, in their ever arduous quest to tame more land, raise more crops, and produce more meat. Just as on the coasts, towns grew up to support the ports and fishing industries.

No, I don't have it backward, first there exists a need, then a small service or big service industry of some sort will arise to fill it. And our very first need, after we first draw breath, is to be fed (babies don't experience diapering as their need, anyone honest will admit that we adults are the ones needing that to be contained and easily cleaned up.)

So we have air, and can usually shelter with our parents until big enough to be kicked out of their cave - or just move on in a desperate bid for privacy, and then there's food, day in and day out, year after year, we must eat. And so the importance of the ones who make eating possible.

Daylight Savings Time was originally an attempt to keep businesses and banks operating on roughly the same schedule as surrounding farmers and ranchers (and their families) would need them to be available. After all, that was most of the customer base, and the rest were other people who served or were associated with farmers and ranchers. The schools attended by children of farmers even had to schedule long breaks for planting/livestock birthing & harvest/butchering seasons. So it made sense, at one time, to change the clocks in summer, as anyone rising to the noise of roosters would be up early, get as much done as possible before the worst of the day's heat, and might actually need a shop, bank, post office, or other service at earlier hours than in the depths of winter.

Fast-forward to the 1970s, after the beginnings of big-agri, mega farming, and people wondered why daylight savings time was needed. Except for the odd holdouts, and some tree-hugging hippies, people just didn't live that way anymore.

Today people prefer convenience to nutrition, political correctness over good education, and the bread provided at the daily circus had better be soft. In years past, even an illiterate sharecropper wanted his kids to know enough of reading and math to make it hard for anyone to cheat them. Now, folks just want to make sure the kids know how to game the system.

But isn't it funny how the times change? More people are realizing that the 5000 "friends" they have @ mytwitfacetube.com are nowhere to be found when they have a flat and can't get the over torqued lug nuts busted loose, or are home sick and out of soup. Some few people are getting back to their agrarian (or even tree-hugging hippie) roots and rediscovering the homestead or family farm. Some are even starting to demand a decent standard of education again, in hope the young blood will be able to apply critical thinking skills to the problems that life presents.

Think on things, and don't forget to set your clocks back.