It seems like people think this is sad or poignant. I don't, not really. Step by step, choice by choice, we came this way from where we were. You want to go back? You're free to do so: just get a place out in the woods, no running water or electricity, no trade, spending all day cultivating crops or animals to try to make sure you get approximately the number of calories you need.<p>People know they don't want to go back to that. But they don't want the baggage that comes along with the choices we made to have this situation instead of the old situation. Did you think it was going to be free? It's kind of a utopian streak in people. No matter how good they've got it, they always still think there's something wrong.<p>Or do you want to change something about the way things are today in order to make a better situation? Then you're just making the same "mistake" that you say people of the past did. What do you want? What would ever satisfy you?