Oddly enough I consider myself part of western society despite having grown up surrounded by hunter gathers ( coastal, riverine, and desert ) and worked with many others (equatorial highlands, etc).

Even today, largely surrounded by industrial scale agricultural farming in the Western Australian wheatbelt (making frequent trips into the Murchison quiet zone for radio astronomy work) I don't see much of what you talk about despite people here using cutting edge tech in farming and many doing FiFo (fly in | fly out) work on largely automated mines that in toto shift almost a billion metric tonne per annum.

Western Society has some interesting slices to it that many miss due to being locked into their own bubble horizons.