Is it possible in today's society to live primitively?
470799
Yes. There many people doing this. Some are Urban, the people living in the Streets. They sleep where they have a place. Eat from where they find food. Most seem happy that I have talked with.\nOut in the Forests, there are those that live more like what I think you are asking. They Build a small Shelter, Hunt, Fish and may come into a town now and then to buy things like Beans, Flour, Corn Meal etc. Some actually pan gold and sell it, may not be much, but, it buy needed items. Some NEVER come to town and depend solely on the Land to Provide.\nI have thought of getting a Canoe and Floating some Rivers where I live until I reach a pick up point. Now, I am saying maybe a 2-3 month Trip. My dog, me and Some Beans, Rice, Flour, things like that and Fish and Hunt. Just want to get a feel of a few months of it, just to see if I can do it.
561891
why not most people are stuff when they are alive anyway right?
547937
living in a natural way would cure us all.Visual aid? Have a look. is the world improving or not?
28919
Few answers to this really, for some people its ahrd to belive that a civilization of 4000 years ago could build something we would have a hell of a hard time building so precisely and also so durable today. I also belive that some people will never belive that anyone in an "uncivilized" area like Africa could build a monument that makes anything that we know about, before it or after pale in comparison, excepting maybe the Great Wall
165323
well by definition society is non-gay. If it wasn't it would be awfully short-lived. I'm not sure what the difference between a gay life and a hetero life is besides what goes on behind closed doors. If that aspect can remain stable, I would say yes, it is possible.
1090249
Some of us still do live by the natural rhythms of nature.Myself included.\nI think we started to turn away from this during the Industrial Revolution.Also the invention of the clock and the lightbulb contributed to it.
979073
I think its a shame that modern man in his feeble attempt to glorify himself has to belittle the greatness of the past in order to achieve a higher level of advancement!! The Ancient Wonders of the past are absolutely mind boggling and magnificent.......no disrespect to our fabulous buildings of modern times but look at what they did with primitive methods of tools and limited resources...\nThey still can figure out how they built these structures and how they have withstand-ed all the years of time??\nDo we as Mankind really want to teach our children the false teachings or misguided views of ignorant would-be marvels???
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In an ideal world, that would be great.  Unfortunately, that kind of reality is probably thousands of years away.\n\nJust like in Star Trek, we probably won't see that until aliens land, and show us exactly how primitive and violent we really are.  As long as we think we are the only civilization in the universe, there is little likelihood for improvement.\n\nI believe society is moving that way, but again, that's going to take hundreds of generations for us to evolve further.\n\nAnd if the aliens land and give us a book, don't go with them, "It's a cookbook!"
770930
I would choose to live in the late 1800's before all this tech. took over the planet.Easier to stay anonymous.
1002598
no, i'm not satisfied with today's lifestyle.\nthough we might have increase in technology, science, etc.\nwe have a decrease in the qualities of life. more individu suffering, more broken family, more poverty.\ni do admire the neolitics era where people live in small community, independent, they fulfill their need themselves, they have lands (since industrial revolution, many people lost their land to small powerful people), they know each other neightbour very well.\n\nbut it isn't impossible to have those life qualities for present, everthing changes and evolves. the main problem for present is global inequality. greed capitalism. consumerism. environment crises. greed. ignorance. we just have to re-establish on our perception on meaning of life, the world.
324197
No- it is impossible.  All of us are forever changing as a result of continued life experiences.
749263
No.  For 6,000 years of recorded history (note:  I said recorded history) man has managed to get thru life.  I think he will continue to do so.
701366
i'd love to live in the late 1800's ... some modern some rustic and the beautiful dresses and the furniture!  thanks for asking this question!  = )
304671
It is very questionable that humans are evolving, at least in terms of largescale selections.  Where we are today with technology, rather than nature selecting the most fit of us, oftentimes we alter nature to allow everyone to live.  This obviously isnt true in all cases, but we are at least tampering and slowing down human evolution
902113
Absolutely and inequitably yes.  History continues to prove this, even when were were less people on the earth; the more people, the more demand for land, resources, power, etc.  There will always be war, unless we had one all powerful world dictatorship type of government, and even then civil wars would inevitably break out to reinstate liberties and freedoms suppressed by the Glorious Leader of the one government, and one subscribed way of thinking.
457964
some people live in a fanatasy world...to them life should be easy...
1169361
There are many things that are happening since the last 5000 years. there are some societies who think good when they develop and some find it comfortable in th eold surroundings. What matters in the quality of what happen around us rather than the time since when it is happening.