It's amazing how people romanticize the past. Or imagine that past humans lived in harmony with nature. We never have. We're using to harvesting resources in un

It's amazing how people romanticize the past. Or imagine that past humans lived in harmony with nature. We never have. We're using to harvesting resources in unsustainable ways, burning old-growth forests intentionally to encourage habitats more friendly to prey animals, etc. Human nature wasn't that much different to now, but the scale and scope sure have changed! But I'll still argue with 100% conviction that modern life is an improvement over what came before. You know where 1/10 women died in childbirth. Where a cut or a scrape or broken bone was often fatal. Where disease was often lethal and its cause unknown. Where war was just part of the way of life. Where only 1/10 men passed on their genes. Where superstition and practices that we consider barbaric abound. That doesn't mean we have it all right, or that there weren't nice things we gave up along the way. But never at any point was there any real option to stop advancing and keep the status quo. Cultures who did that, if any, are not around in an independent form today. Nature is still survival of the fittest. And you could go back to tribal living if you wanted. There are plenty of people in the world living in primitive, tribal conditions and poverty with minimal interaction with the outside world. I expect some subset of those tribes would allow you to join them if you so chose. I'd seriously question your sanity if you did though.