It’s worth remembering that the “traditional life” is more or less what’s left after every previous society experimented until it fell. We are experimenting now

It’s worth remembering that the “traditional life” is more or less what’s left after every previous society experimented until it fell. We are experimenting now too, and will probably fall. Some of the experiments will work but also a mean reversion will likely occur. Such is progress when you zoom out to the century scale.