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Originally Posted by Iron's Rite I didn't state that. What I mean is simply that living in a small, closely-nit community with little outside influence; doesn't lead directly to contemplation and enlightenment but to a healthy sense of meaning in ones existence, A belief that your life and the lives of others in your society has value. Also, societies like that often do find the time to develope well-tended esoteric and existential pursuits even while they are working to survive. |
Chances are you live in one now. Even people in NYC live in them. See its easy to say oh you live in NYC your not close knit. But you forget that people live on streets and or in burrows that are quite close knit away from the rest of the city.
Your line of reasoning is bullshit to begin with simply because it presupposes set natural rythms for all man kind which are not proven to be so. Its like me saying we are all lost because we dont all harvest beets anymore, and we lived a much happier and closer knit spiritual life back in the old freezing to death harvest cycles of the 1700s in Germany. I mean... what nonsense.