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-- Donna Ball (writing as Donna Boyd), The Passion
This is factually false. I know the subculture of Americans who are most-passionate about going back to nature, and they do it. The unrealism in their attitude derives not from ignorance of nature, but from being able to go back to nature while under the protection of American law and mores, so that they don't have to band together in tribes for pretection, compete with other tribes for land, and do the whole tribal bickering and conformity thing.
It's all about population density. Primitive life is pretty great if you have low population density--one pers... (read more)