> i don't see how that is possible without creating some sort of anti high tech ideology, but then you would be at a disadvantage against others who do not follow the same ideology. you don't even need an explicit "anti-high tech ideology", you need people to start valuing their own autonomy over material comfort -- those factors alone limits the scale of a community and the nature of its activities enough to prevent the mass-scale enterprise needed to re-establish industrial society and technological infrastructure. > then you would be at a disadvantage against others who do not follow the same ideology. humanity had managed to exist for a very, very long time before conditions arose that pressured a group of people into establishing anything resembling a technological civilization.
Moldova