Suffering = Knowledge?

[Galen Wilkerson]

Oh, by the way, I'm sure lots of people did travel _locally_  in the
middle ages, but almost no one would travel so far as we did, when it was
hard enough just to survive digging a living out of the dirt, let alone
walking (without our handy modern gore-tex, antibiotics, etc. etc. etc.
etc) that far.  For most, I'm sure it was like a death-sentence or leaving
for the americas.  No one expects to see you again.

G