postapocalyptic I can haz cheezburger boat

If you've never been there, the I can has cheezburger site is a place where people post pictures of their pets and put funny captions on them.  The captions are written in a babytalk/imaginary pet language with its own orthography. In any case, they have branched out into other realms.  I am posting a photo from that website here because it is obviously a prime example of post-apocalyptic boat building.  If you want to see it in its original environment, go here. Then you can also look a funny cat pictures. 

Some points worth mentioning: The upright rowing posts and the oarlocks, a piece of rope or rag tied around both oar and post and the fact that the boat is rowed by the rower facing forward place it somewhere in east Asia.  Normally, the person rowing is standing, but who knows, maybe they need a break sometime, hence the lawn chair.

everything is connected

everything is connected - a corny concept, perhaps somewhat discredited by blatant overuse by the new age crowd. Nevertheless, if you have an active mind, you can connect everything and anything with anything else.
So in short order, I have managed to connect the Russian Aleut accordion player with another Russian accordion player with coppicing with boat building with new age thought.
Anyway, the idea of connectedness was not invented by new age thinkers, it was simply revived by them. The central concept is animism, I think, that everything has spirit which is the substrate that connects all things. So there we go. Animism is still the major explanatory concept throughout most of the world, much more popular than materialism which is what drives industrial cultures.
I don't know if this is a valid connection, but it seems that where materialism is the intellectual substrate of industrialism, animism is the intellectual/spiritual substrate of pre and possibly post industrial societies.
So here is my proposal for the day: animism is the driving force of post-apocalyptic boat building.