So your objection to the "Noble Savage" idea is that people are really just wanting a social escape? <br><br>Personally, I feel that the less modern technology that I rely on, the better. Maybe people want some degree of control over their environment, that if they lost their computer, car, and leatherman tool that they would still be able to survive. Maybe we are learning to survive not to exist, but to keep our sense of control over our own destinies? (A destiny hinging on what others produce for us, versus what we produce ourselves?)<br><br>Food for thought: if mankind is a tool using animal, who is using us? :)<br>