You are a consumer, a borrower, a voter, a worker, et cetera. You have lots of power. Regardless of your feelings of not being at peace, civilization is absolu

You are a consumer, a borrower, a voter, a worker, et cetera. You have lots of power. Regardless of your feelings of not being at peace, civilization is absolutely a compromise. A world that avoids the compromises of civilization is not one that will be static and unchanging either. Society expects less of you than ever before. And are you not allowed to leave, as Christopher McCandless did (and other trancendentalists before him, more successfully). Plenty of mountain people operate under the assumption that they are entitled to be left alone, and they consider the US flag to be a flag of pirates. We should have room for those enclaves if their municipalities allow for them, I guess.