[skywalker]

What is destroying the world is black-and-white vision. The inability to discern is the first step to overcome, otherwise all the other steps will only take us backwards.

Getting rid of technology is neither feasible nor advisable. A lot of the things you say about the emotional effects of this lifestyle are true, but this lifestyle is our choice. There is nothing stopping you from living in a non-technological community if the fast life upsets you. Even in the heart of Babylon, the Amish survive. The rest of us are here by choice. The internet has enabled me to hear your voice, and return mine for your consideration. I appreciate it very much, despite the fact that it also supports a lot of industrial activity I disapprove of.

However, the bottom line is that technology can be used to do just as much good as harm, but it's presently being abused by the corporate machine. If you wish to fix that completely, you need to be:

c) in politics
b) incorruptible
a) incapable of getting assassinated.

Otherwise, you can personally invest into slightly offsetting the damage, and it can be done It would cost you a lot of time and money, but you would do some good, and perhaps others would follow you. If that does not appeal to you, I don't blame you. However, somebody has to do it, or overthrow the government, and the industry, and the consumers.

I don't argue that there is a problem to be solved, but I don't have a solution, and I cannot support yours. There is nothing more spiritual than technology. Centuries of patience have given rise to diverse avenues where we have harmonized nature with nature to yield unspeakable power. Don't let our current inability to control this power distort your perception of the beauty at the heart of this phenomenon.