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I'm not sure the aim is to become hunter-gatherers again. To go back to a pre-technological state. That's virtually impossible. (And logistically improbable.) I think the aim is to see what beneficial aspects of their society is lacking from ours.
What is it we're doing wrong? Many things. We are an "advanced" civilization. Why can't we make better use of our good aspects to improve the worst of our wrongs? What are the barriers, what are the challenges?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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