Long before technology, the best idea a wise man could have would be to retire from the world. He would realize imposing human will on reality and the planet earth interferes with its perfection. Earth without humans would be better not worse. Today people are the opposite, AND they have technology, which changes everything.
I often feel like living in a permanent hermetic reclusive lifestyle also.
There are some days I just want nothing to do with this world anymore. It stems from the realization when you understand how truly fucked this world is. A world this current grotesque humanity has molded and fashioned…
But to a parasite, leaving a host is like suicide.
Parasites love to eat the host, but they don’t love to be hostless.
Hunger based relationships, fake friends, want nothing more than to find “buddy” enablers to extend their little adventure in parasite land.
I seriously doubt that. It depends on the agreement that wise=imposing the valuation that human will interferes with perfection. The world, in other words, is perfect and the imposition of the human will takes away from that perfection. I do not believe that a slab of marble was less perfect after Canova got done with it. I doubt that grass was less perfect because it was transformed into paper for men to further impose their will. Which all brings me to the question, how do you define perfection?
Without humans the very distinction could not be made, so the earth would not be better, would not be worse, but beyond such distinctions.
I think that what you might be hinting at is the fact that human existence is changing the planet. That is very much a fact. Without our existence there would be no distinction, no perfection, no imperfection, but we are also part of reality and part of this earth, so, maybe, we are actually part of its perfection rather than a hindrance to it.
In the good old days wise persons had compassion for others, and compassion is impossible to develop without people who are suffering, so they cherished other suffering humans like a rare and precious diamond.
You realise that, for all our self-judged faults, we are the absolute pinnacle of what the earth, and possibly even the universe, has thrown up so far, don’t you…?