Weird thoughts

I was washing my dishes just a little while ago and while I was washing I had this thought-what would the people from just a hundred or two hundred years ago think about my garbage disposal? They'd probably think it was awesome, was my first thought. Then I got to thinking a little more as I dumped plates full of food down this disposal. A disposal for perfectly good food, my kids just didn't finish their dinner. They'd probably be amazed and appalled that an invention of the sort every came about and that everybody thought it was such a good idea (because so much food is actually wasted). I don't exactly know what the conditions were like several hundred years ago but I imagine food was not ever discarded like it is today. If I was a farmer and I had to provide my own food for myself out of the ground I'd do everything in my power to preserve all of it and very carefully. Not any of it would go to waste. Now, today, I don't pull anything from the ground or process anything to it's eating form. I don't pit my own cherries, can beans, grind wheat, store my wheat, etc. So it is hard for me to appreciate how much I have. And it is easier to discard what I don't appreciate. It is amazing the things that have been invented today. A lot of things are presented to me that I never before had a knowledge of that suddenly become quite convenient and then before long a necessity. Would anyone buy a car that didn't have power steering? At one point this was just a handy convenience but now it is a necessity. Weird how that happens.