Well, that does make this less romantic, but personally that was a romanticism that I put over the situation from my own bias rather than anything in the articl

Well, that does make this less romantic, but personally that was a romanticism that I put over the situation from my own bias rather than anything in the article. That is, there are many stories with idealists that use no modern tools, but I don't see that Nagasaki made any such claims to be fully self sufficient, only that he enjoyed where he lived.