I'm positive to your overall sentiment that we should remember the physical health and comfort which we have achieved. The Hobbes quote, however, does not appl

I'm positive to your overall sentiment that we should remember the physical health and comfort which we have achieved. The Hobbes quote, however, does not apply. Hobbes was comparing life with/without a sufficiently strong Leviathan ('central government') to provide basic protection of property rights, or at least a semblance of such protection. But the "long way" to which you refer, the physical comfort of modern life, is the fruit of the industrial revolution, roughly 150 years of history. Hobbes was much earlier, he probably never saw the IR coming.