Your story reminds me of Thoreau's motivation for Walden (highly recommended to anyone who hasn't read it). With this in mind, it feels like the sentiment expr

Your story reminds me of Thoreau's motivation for Walden (highly recommended to anyone who hasn't read it). With this in mind, it feels like the sentiment expressed by the author of the posted link, yourself, and many others (including myself) might just be a constant of humanity, no better or worse now than it ever was (much like many other things; for instance adults saying that teenagers are more disrespectful than ever, which is a feeling that the ancient greeks expressed several millennia ago).