> Chief among them is this: if everything was so great in this imagined past, why are we here and why if we did go back and revive this past would we not end up

> Chief among them is this: if everything was so great in this imagined past, why are we here and why if we did go back and revive this past would we not end up right back here “repeating the grade” so to speak? This is a quite limited perspective that ignores momentum of change. In the book Against the Grain, the author observes that the earliest societies that transitioned from hunter-gatherers to agrarian worked harder and longer hours with less time to relax and have leisure and were actually less healthy and didn't live as long. That's just one example where "progress" was not such. We see this again and again though. Yea, we've amplified the amount of stuff we can grow but at the great cost of the environment and even our own health and well-being. We now ingest food filled with plastics and toxins, like mercury. Human technological progress has occurred at rates that we cannot emotionally and biologically keep up with, and the distance is only accelerating. > All our significant problems must be very hard to solve or they would already be solved. Most significant problems were created by us in the first place.