You're not insane. > build a cabin somewhere in a small rural area and throw my electronics in the trash That's a reasonable response to what we're seeing tod

You're not insane. > build a cabin somewhere in a small rural area and throw my electronics in the trash That's a reasonable response to what we're seeing today. We are effectively in a phase of history where the folks that are good at making money have abstracted most of the rest of the economy beyond the point where it harms the fundamental purpose of human activity in the first place. For example, car companies are actually finance companies that use cars as the substrate (I almost said "vehicle") for extracting more money from consumers. We are being fought by large AIs (corporations are AIs that use humans for neurons.) To a first approximation, "Tune in, turn on, and drop out." is a good response. Take a breather, re-examine your relations with the economy and technology, design a better life, and go live that.