When I'm overwhelmed by all this I like to daydream about what my heaven would be. In heaven I would live with a small group of interconnected people. I would work and socialize with the same people maybe even at the same time. Life would be simple. There would be beautiful natural places.
Taking a look at the things I listed, I realize that my heaven sounds a lot like primitive life. It sounds like living with a tribe in the woods, or living in a small fishing village on a coast. Minus the disease and famine of course.
I doubt this is a coincidence. I am adapted to a certain kind of life, because my ancestors lived this life for thousands of years. And yet here I am in a new and very different environment and I'm not adapted to it.
I am curious. Will humans adapt to modern life? Will the louder tougher faster humans, the ones who are more fit for living in a modern world eventually beat out the other humans and thus the species will evolve?
Or will humans change modern life so that it more closely matches what they have evolved to over thousands of years. Maybe businesses will close on Sundays again. Maybe there will be a renaissance of small towns with tight knit communities and thriving downtowns. Maybe they will build lots of parks.
