I think you're likely right. I'm sure our modern lifestyles are making us miserable.
I wonder if it's impossible to find people who still live like that though. I imagine there must be groups of people out there living off grid. Obviously, you'd need to avoid anything that looks like a cult but, there must be places.
The bigger question I think is: Would you be trading your current problems for a new set? Could you live without the comforts you've grown used to? No electricity, no internet, no running water or sanitation. Could you work 8 hours in a field doing manual labour? Fetching water, building shelter?
Would you start to miss the way our societies do in fact look after us- without us really paying much attention? Imagine not having a proper flushing toilet. That no one came to pick up your rubbish. That there were no modern drugs if you became ill. I think people tend to have a romanticized view of what it would actually be like to live without our mod cons.
You're also assuming I guess that- everyone will pull their weight in the community. Why would it be so different to modern communities? Wouldn't there still be a criminal element, some people who want to hog all the power and order others about. Some who refuse to work- even though they can? Why would the group dynamics be any different? I just tend to wonder if it wouldn't end up being more of the same. Only without electricity and running water.
Yeah we could definanetly find a tribe somewhere that still lives that way. They always seem happy too, for example the tribes in deep jungles. They don't Look like they suffer everday or like they fake being happy. Some Interviewer once asked a guy from a jungle tribe "don't you want to go live with us in the big city" to which He replied "why would i want to live somewhere, where people jump from buildings?" Although i don't know if they would just accept a random depressed Person in their tribe.
Also, i don't want or need a Toilet, they are Bad for our health and the eco System. Our poop needs to go into the ground so the nutrients can get absorbed back into the earth and then back again into the plants we eat. Instead we burn our poop and just throw away the nutrients because it cant be used anyway anymore. Our poop is toxic nowadays because of medications and bad diet. Nowadays we have to Supplement the earth with chemicals before we can grow food instead of the natural way. I love pooping sitting down on the ground, it feels much better.
Also there is no rubbish in nature. Everything has it's purpose and is in an Infinitiv circle. The fact that we produce rubbish is not natural. Everything we do nowadays is just wrong and will ultimately lead to the downfall of this World we created. It simply isn't sustainable. Everything.
When you live in a tribe you don't work on a field for 8 hours. They just hunt for an hour Max, eat and then chill for the rest of the day, like lions. They already build strong shelters from natural materials that are naturally cooling when it's Hot. They really be chillin all day. Just watch some Interviews with tribes, they literally live a dream life and nothing from our comforts can compare with that. It's almost like they live in a Real life mmorpg. They wear cool skins, know how to use weapons and kill so that they can eat. They make fire and shit. Look at the beautiful night sky with all their friends every day. What do we do? Work, go home, scroll, sleep. Repeat until death. It's never supposed to be like that. It's sad what the World has become. If i could bomb all humans but let the tribes survive i'd totally do it. It would be the Best for everyone.
I don't want anything that modern society offers. Sure it's comfortable, but i would give everything away to live with a tribe in complete Harmony with nature. There is and will never be a thing modern society could offer me, that will be better than living a life that i was meant to live. A life 24/7 in nature, 24/7 with a group of people i trust and that trust me.
