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I think "modern society" is a scapegoat here. You aren't yearning for a more antique society. You are romanticising the past. The part you are looking for is
by jamesrom 9y ago
I think "modern society" is a scapegoat here.
You aren't yearning for a more antique society. You are romanticising the past.
The part you are looking for is being connected to a community, and there's many more ways to do that today than ever before.
- anigbrowl 9y agoUm, no. You can critique the present as being flawed in some manner without necessarily wishing to go backwards. Your argument seems to rest on the notion that we are at some sort of optimum and any changes to society will inevitably make things worse. You overlook, for example, the possibility that the GP is able to imagine superior future(s) the most probable one and is expressing disappointment at our failure to pursue them.