Мы строим деревню / we are building ecovillage: телефон

Our phone began to ring

JCDharma 03.12.13 в 11:41

Initially we didn't have telephony at all. We had to go to the top of the nearest mountain and call from there. So that's how a more conscious approach to chatting has developed. It occurs to your mind: "Shall I give a call to X?" You grab your cellphone then look at the mountain and thinks: "Actually, I don't have much to say right now". And your desire to chat vanishes. Naturally that helped saving a lot of money. If for each phone call people had to go to the top of a high mountain we'd be a very sporty nation. Or mobile providers would be very poor. Of course the lack of communication facilities was the source of certain inconveniences: if you needed to order something (building materials, for instance) you had to go to the village. And more: the workers couldn't be in the the settlement for a long time. Their relatives worried because they couldn't connect with them and so on.

JCDharma 02.12.13 в 15:06

For abut a year we tried to solve the telephone question. Some variants were offered but they were too expensive. But then we found a suitable solution. An antenna was installed on a telecommunications workers` booth in the nearest village and then it was directed towards our location. It worked out. Radio extender was 10 times cheaper than up-link. Now we have intercommunication. But we don't have Internet access. But we can have a chat. When telephony appeared, everyone started chatting. Isn't it joyful to tell everybody that now we have a phone? Then we got first telephone bills. And we immediately reduced the number of calls.

JCDharma 03.12.13 в 12:01

Now, during the winter, we sometimes switch it off when we don't feel like talking to anyone. And sometimes we talk a lot. Having a phone is convenient, after all. It creates an illusion that everything is close. Civilization

JCDharma 06.12.13 в 14:03