[goldstategop]

The ideal of the Simple Life has been around since antiquity. Its never caught on as a mass movement since for most people for millenia, life was short, uncomfortable and very hard. We in the West for the first time in human history have it truly easy. I don't think most people would want to go back and live the way their ancestors did. The entire point of human progress is the pursuit of happiness. We're not going to attain it by living like abstentious hermits.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Chuzzlewit]

Only the young, could come up with such a foolish plan. They will live and learn, and look back upon their stupid move with a smile. Provided they survive. It brings to mind that movie “Into the wild”, or better yet, that idiot bear guy who lived with the bears and ultimately became a bear lunch, in Alaska. Many of us had such stupid ideas when we were young, when we were drinking a brewskie with friends and having one of those funny cigarettes. A half hour later we fell asleep and forgot about it.