| That is to say, does a person in isolation enjoying their own happiness have any meaning whatsoever? Does grinding oneself into dust at a thankless job for a

| That is to say, does a person in isolation enjoying their own happiness have any meaning whatsoever? Does grinding oneself into dust at a thankless job for a faceless corporation in the name of perpetual economic "growth" at the cost of the entirety of survivable nature as we know it have any meaning whatsoever? Because that's the flipside of what you're saying. It may not be possible for us to go back to a time before modern technology, medicine, etc (or maybe its more likely than we think), but is it any wonder that so many peoples' brains yearn for something like that? The definition of life may be struggle, as you say, but struggle without self-determination may be the very thing that kills whatever "human" is.