It is, but I invite Derreck to go live somewhere without technology, medical advances, et al. I suspect within a month or two he would be back and then would shut his stupid mouth.
“It is, but I invite Derreck to go live somewhere without technology, medical advances, et al. I suspect within a month or two he would be back and then would shut his stupid mouth.”
Exactly. What the anti-civilization types dont realize is that with every tech development people decide if will make their lives better compared to what they currently have. The hunter gatherers chose agriculture when it became available, people who rode horses chose autos, those who lived in caves chose huts, hut dwellers chose houses, those who got their water from streams chose indoor plumbing, etc. Civilization didnt appear out of no-where, it developed from rational choices. Its also interesting that when some primative tribe is discovered, its members tend to leave in great numbers to go live in a town.