This is a very well considered comment. I identify a lot with this. Modern society is a very abstract place in which people find it difficult to meaningfully t

This is a very well considered comment. I identify a lot with this. Modern society is a very abstract place in which people find it difficult to meaningfully trade favour. In cities at least, a whole bunch of stuff is out of the control of individuals and in the control of a bureaucracy. Wanting to escape that I don't see as being foreign at all. Makes me think of the movie Falling Down. There are certainly times that I enter some sort of internal monologue and just think - look, I'm here, open and kind; perhaps not always, but in this moment I am. And others are here acting as obstacles... because it's "their job", or whatever.