/lit/ - Literature

>>17417955
>the country and its national infrastructure is a bureaucratic mess of solutions without problems, and the work required to develop and maintain those things leads the people involved with it astray from their spirituality
>instead we should all live simple lives and elevate our spirituality
There's a sense of thrill to large-scale developments like the telegraph and railroad infrastructure. You mentioned before that mankind is uniquely able to create- they expend that effort on what is most-easily conceptualized. You're right that it's all a vain and spiritless endeavor, but the pursuit itself is enjoyable, even if it's at the expense of mankind's spirituality. The pale hope seems to be that solutions can be found that will someday allow men to focus on spirituality, but you and I both think that the "solutions" instead catch men in the cogs of the machine, thereby destroying their connections with nature and spirituality.

Sadly, even in spacious America I think it'd be incredibly difficult to find each household the room to homestead in the way you describe it. It seems that without colonizing the stars, mankind will only expand on each man's sovereignty, stealing their space and freedom in the process. This can only go so far until mankind breaks its respect of sovereignty and culls the weak to make room and hardship once again.