We’re lucky to be living in the world the way it is today instead of the way it was three-hundred years ago. Simpler times weren’t necessarily happier times.

Today, we have the option of choosing more simplicity if we want it. But you couldn’t choose vaccines before they existed. You couldn’t choose air-conditioning before it existed. You couldn’t choose motorized transportation before it existed. The list goes on.

An advanced civilization with many problems is better than a primitive one with many problems.