Why smart people are choosing less to return to simpler times. We realized that corporations (and even our government) had no interest in actually improving our lives. Instead, they made false promises, enshittifed everything, and found ways to extract even more value from us in increasingly destructive ways.
I've been thinking about this scene from The Network a lot recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug
Exactly. We need to become much more angry.