With both the incentive and the ability to move long distances gone, families and friends would stay in the same community through several generations. Children would see grandparents daily or weekly instead of just on holidays. Grade-school friends would grow into adulthood together and raise their own children side-by-side. Over a few decades, social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace would wither and die from lack of demand.
Not only would one's spirit benefit from strong family relationships and friendships, one's body would benefit from several changes. The first and most obvious change is the exercise that would come from walking or riding bicycles or horses everywhere. The Center for Disease Control says that even a moderate amount of physical activity can: prevent obesity, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes, strengthen muscles and bones, and improve your mental health (Physical Activity, 2010, para.1). Since $1 of every $10 spent on health care in the United States is spent treating just Type 2 diabetes (Pallarito, 2008, para.2), a sudden increase in the activity level of the general population could save millions upon millions of dollars, in addition to creating a happier and healthier country.
The second health change that would occur would concern the American diet. At the moment, the standard American diet relies heavily on processed food loaded with preservatives to withstand shipping and long periods on grocery shelves. Even the produce found on most grocery shelves has been treated with chemicals to retard decomposition, allowing them to be trucked all over the continent and beyond. In the absence of trucks, such a diet would be impossible, not to mention unnecessary. People would rely primarily on local, seasonal foods grown and raised by people in their communities. Corporate agriculture would crumble, and the country would see a return of the small, privately-run farm producing healthy, fresh food.
On the surface, all of these changes seem to be pointing towards Steiner's utopian vision of strong communities of healthy, engaged citizens, but there are many pitfalls to be considered as well. The lack of ability to travel a distance...
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