You know more about it than I, so I defer. I guess I can’t relate....’Cause here I am at 10PM banging on the laptop, which I’ve been doing in one form or another since 6AM.
Well, perhaps the best way to put it is to think of a visit to your rural grandparents, or going to summer camp for a week, just to go on vacation and “get out of town’.
A lot of people fantasize about this sort of thing, because they are overwhelmed with the pressure and routine of an IT society. And some people just can’t deal with it at all.
In perspective, it does make you ask why Obama and Washington have to be in the news every single day. Washington used to be far away and a lot quieter, but the egomaniacs in the place now think of themselves like Hollywood stars trying to steal the limelight in any way they can. So they keep forcing themselves on our attention.
Which is really annoying when they have nothing new to say, but act like wired cheerleaders to excite everyone over nothing of importance. And the media helps them to do this a lot, to fill up their 24 hour news cycle.
And, as you just pointed out, the Internet and computers are a time consuming monster.
So, with an emphasis on reasonably modest logistics, imagine living in a settlement away from all of that. There could be all sorts of diverse ways of doing so, but the emphasis is a more relaxed life, for those who just can’t adapt to fast paced everything.