[garbanzo]

I'm not one of these back-to-nature luddite types - we bring some good things like medicine and electricity. At the same time we bring a lot of bad things as well and after modernization, a lot of the primitives end up as poor drunks living in a cinder block apartment somewhere. My hope would be to combine modern technology and development with the sort of holistic approach that leads to a greater degree of happiness. What's the point of producing all of this stuff if we can never enjoy it?

[Bluntpoint]

My hope is to some day have a great big house and an expensive car and never have time to enjoy either.

[elfman2]

" My hope would be to combine modern technology and development with the sort of holistic approach that leads to a greater degree of happiness. What's the point of producing all of this stuff if we can never enjoy it?"

No doubt. I think getting there is more of a task of interactively taking the best of both worlds through a kind of surgical precision and reorganizing the parts, not by casually blending everything attractive among them together and celebrating diversity.

Nude summer camp for teenagers? I'd have never opened a book again. (Of course if it were held over my head for grades, I'd probably be a scholar.) But no way would I let my daughter trade off her innocents and become fresh meat to those dead enders. Let me see, music camp, photography camp, volleyball camp, or nudist camp… such a hard decision…