Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…
Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.
I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.
I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.
Yes and no, I think.
Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…
Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.
I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.
I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.