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I don't get where the vengefullnes would come. You're in a good literary company. Your ideas sound very much what Freud and Marx wrote of modern life - the lat
by fsloth 11y ago
I don't get where the vengefullnes would come. You're in a good literary company.
Your ideas sound very much what Freud and Marx wrote of modern life - the latter whom was actually really acute about a great many things (despite what other did later in his name).
You option #1 sounds basically like Aldous Huxley's 'A brave new world.
Lots of modern people have fought with the dilemma you talked about. Quite a many came to the conclusion (Tolstoy, Gandhi, among them) that farm life was the best remedy. Unfortunately a comfortable farm life requires the support of an entire civilization so it's not a scalable solution.
- duaneb 11y agoPerhaps a rejection of agricultural society and a return to nomadic life would help. But then you also face fears about extinction much more readily. Alternatively, working less, vacationing more would help a lot, and make the idea of "less work that needs to be done" more palatable to people who have attached their very values to their careers and being needed by society.
- SupremumLimit 11y agoNomadic life is simply not possible for 7.3 billion people on this planet. It requires much lower population density.
- meatysnapper 11y agoThe gypsies would like to have a word with you. Now it's true the modern nation state puts a damper on them (the essential conflict between nomadic and sedentary societies) it can still be done.