> The problem is that doing that will very quickly tell you that modern society fucking sucks. Almost nothing works, everyone hates each other, things that are

> The problem is that doing that will very quickly tell you that modern society fucking sucks. Almost nothing works, everyone hates each other, things that are important get ignored because of greed, and most importantly, there's almost nothing you can do about it. You might be heavily biased due to the news & social media you take in. What remains of this if you remove all ideas about "society" that came to you in digital form? Do the people around you really all "hate each other"? Does "nothing works", really? Do important things get ignored in your physical vicinity? And if not, why could you not do anything about it? I am saying this because a lot of (younger) people don't realise most salient news is negative news (climate distaster, war, crime etc). Well maybe they do realise this but still latently let it dictate their whole world view even though it is in complete disregard to their local world which have none or little of those problems (war, direct climate issues, hard visible racism, etc etc) . If you just look around yourself, both in the physical world and in time (ie. in your life up to now), how much is completely, really, "fucked-up", anyway? Sure some distasters happen (relatives, friend or pets that die etc), but other than that, life around me is pretty much amazing considering how your life would've looked like 100 years ago. Still, nature is really nice of course. We originate from nature, so it soothes us naturally (well most of us). So why not do both? Stay a couple of month per year outside of bigger cities / detach from digital media. After a while you'll miss the city probably as much as you miss nature now. So mix it up a little. Variety is the spice of life.