Simple life utopia?
Feb. 5th, 2022 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ionelvBigThink.com has an article about simple life, but it smells a lot like luddism or unrealistic expectations given that technology has opened Pandora's box and/or is simply a chaos accelerator. Can't put the genie back in the bottle peeps no matter how hard we wish it.
Returning to subsistence farming, minimal to no healthcare and eventually no government services whatsoever sounds great in theory, but as long our numbers keep increasing and people gang up together to pray on the weak, simple life is just an utopia of the affluent and clueless.
The opposite of consumerism is not really a simple life, frugal simplicity, monasticism, or other self-isolating pre-industrial self-sentences. The truth is somewhere in the middle: less consumerism, mindfulness, staying fully engaged, travelling less, etc.
Returning to subsistence farming, minimal to no healthcare and eventually no government services whatsoever sounds great in theory, but as long our numbers keep increasing and people gang up together to pray on the weak, simple life is just an utopia of the affluent and clueless.
The opposite of consumerism is not really a simple life, frugal simplicity, monasticism, or other self-isolating pre-industrial self-sentences. The truth is somewhere in the middle: less consumerism, mindfulness, staying fully engaged, travelling less, etc.
