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Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin by huntilio on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:27PM (#24053587)
There's nothing left to worship, so you're seeing a confluence of 2 forms of modern worship: a return to nature / primitive living (where we can imagine away the distractions of modern living), and worship of the self / fame, where we create these myths of ourselves and tell that story / get a bunch of people to be interested. I suspect neither one is very fulfilling, but I understand the impulse (especially the first one).
Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin by marktangotango on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:42PM (#24053727)
One need only cite Emerson and Thoreau to see this has in fact been going on for quite some time.
Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin by dotsam on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:31PM (#24054191)
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, by the seashore, in the mountains; and you too are wont to desire such things very much. But this is a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire within yourself.” Marcus Aurelius, ~1800 years ago