>>14319366When you live in a modern city or town, especially in America, you are less healthy, have more cancer, and fewer friends than any of your peasant ancestors
You have next to no community, no shared overreaching framework for understanding the world and God, and much less freedom to do what you want both in what you choose to do for/at work (which is always in the industrial system's interest) and in what you do for and when you play
All the while you eat less nutritious food, are more tempted to all kinds of addictions, work more at less fulfilling jobs and even the air you breath is less refreshing
That last one really gets me.
When you live in an apartment in the city and you spend a lot of time in it you can FEEL the difference an excess of CO2 makes on the sluggishness of your mind
Just imagine living on another planet where all these innumerable pleasures we take for granted on Earth will have to be artificially constructed or else forgone.
And this means you're not gonna get the ideal experience, anymore than we do right now; these factors will be OPTIMIZED to be just enough for you to accept!
How much do you value the blue color of the sky? Or the brightness of the sun? Exactly how tall does the sky need to be to not feel claustrophobic?
I say we slow down our cancerous rate of growth and instead become a beneficial parasite on nature, like the good bacteria in your gut, protecting it from our own overgrowth and even helping it
We can get to the stars, sure, but we can do it slowly
Sorry for all the words
