Every Human Knew This Skill Until 1912. Why Don't They Teach This Today?

Описание: Every Human Knew This Skill Until 1912. Why Don't They Teach This Today?

A skill that every human being knew for 5,000 years. Your great-grandmother knew it. Your grandfather knew it. Every soldier, farmer, cook, and craftsman in history knew it. It was as basic as lighting a fire. Then in 1912, one company figured out that if they could make you forget this skill, they could sell you replacements for the rest of your life.

Sharpening. The oldest craft skill in human history, erased in less than two generations. Not because it stopped working. Because the blade that lasts forever is a blade they cannot sell you twice.

We travel from Bronze Age Mesopotamia where whetstones are the most common artifacts found, to Japanese sword polishers who trained for 15 years to create edges that could sever silk drifting in the breeze. We uncover the man who killed the straight razor and invented disposable blades, how schools stopped teaching the skill by 1985, and why modern knife marketing uses "never needs sharpening" as a selling point when what it really means is "never gets sharp."

A good carbon steel knife lasts 50 to 100 years. A quality whetstone costs $30 to $80 and sharpens every blade in your house for the rest of your life. The technique takes 30 minutes to learn. The knowledge was never lost. It was priced out, marketed away, and replaced with plastic cartridges.

Sharpness is not a product. It is a skill. And a skill once reclaimed cannot be repurchased because it never needs to be.

0:00 The Skill They Made You Forget
1:07 Mesopotamia: 5,000 Years of Sharpening
2:45 The Whetstone Economy
3:30 Japanese Sword Polishers
4:30 The Physics of a Sharp Edge
6:00 What the Disposable Industry Hides
7:00 The Man Who Killed the Straight Razor
8:10 How Disposable Culture Swallowed Everything
9:55 Schools Stopped Teaching It
11:00 The Edge That Refused to Stay Dull
12:30 How to Reclaim the Skill

Burrfection on YouTube has over 1.5 million subscribers teaching sharpening. The Reddit sharpening community has 100,000 members. Murray Carter and Bob Kramer teach traditional techniques in the US.

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