just what is a natural life? isn't man a part of nature? aren't his works, therefore, a part of nature. without his technologies, mankind would have never survived. man developed weapons to defend himself from the rest of nature and to provide himself with food. he developed clothing and shelter to protect his fragile frame. he developed language and the written word to exchange ideas so that others of his kind would understand these new developments and help themselves survive. just where is it you are going to draw the line? there is nothing that man produces that he did not derive from nature.
you claim to use this technology only to provide others with your ideas, but isn't that what we are all doing? you rail against the powerful, their injustices and their greed, but they existed long before man was anything more than a frightened hairless ape. avarice and envy are an integral part of humanity, just as his more enlightened aspects. hatred is the downside to intelligence and it has nothing to do with the complexity of out lives. the roots of our demise can be found in our ignorance and sloth, our inability to recognize what our baser instincts are allowing us to do to ourselves and the world around us and our unwillingness to alter our path. the enlightened man may live surrounded by every modern convenience and still be a positive force. the unenlightened man will find no peace, no matter how much of the modern world he may give up. he will merely succeed in hiding his failures away from the rest of humanity.
that's all we're doing when we go scurrying into the underbrush, searching for our primitive selves. hiding from reality. we don't improve anything by abandoning it. we merely cut ourselves off from our fellows and hide what little we may have to offer behind a mask of primitivism. we don't become the primitive, we play at it and abandon all we might have done for others. we choose to live outside of a society we might have helped save. nothing will have been altered. one more voice for positive change will have been stilled.