I think it incredibly vulgar to assume we are so impotent, that we don't have choice in the matter, that we can't govern ourselves to better ends. There are gr

I think it incredibly vulgar to assume we are so impotent, that we don't have choice in the matter, that we can't govern ourselves to better ends. There are great awful harms we are walking down the path of, and it's dreadful. But it's such an extreme conservatism to say that the only viably course is back. Society could have a say in shaping the way forward and there are plenty of great paths open before us. But we only get those ends if we can look to the future, versus hearkening only to thr past. There are so many seas of potential we have, such vast capabilities that embue us with agency & possibility. What lead us to technology? The desire to feed & shelter & cloth ourselves, the desire for health, natural human inquiry about the natural world, a desire for betterment. Greed keeps stealing the reigns, but what folly to wish us back to the woods, to malign the whole effort of civilization because the efforts aren't purely aimed yet. It's cowardice in the extreme, this idolizing of a past over the imminence of the journey forward.