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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
Would you want to trade the world we have, as flawed as it is, for some fantasy idea of living like what anthropologists used to call "the noble savages"?
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You pose a real good critique. In addition to conscious or unconscious idealization re a "primitive" society there's also the fact that while our modern civilization has many problems it also has created many opportunities for self-actualization, philosophy, and transcendence.