there are tribes of aborigenes in australia who have gone back to their old lifestle. What they can remember of it.

Personally I could use a bit of primitive as a holiday, but full time ?
No way. I like electricity and medicine and food :-)
And did primitives have chocolate ? NO. So sod 'em :-)
lol
it's a nice ideal but as a way of life it sucks.

Oh yeah!What happens when one gets appendicitis in the wild......

I agree with SMUDGE,because we already knew the comfort of the modern life,we won't be satisfied by the primitive life. It would be miserable.

Honestly ,  I don't like this society.We human are too dependant on the society to live.I have to study hard in order to get a job.I'm still studying.Why not learn how to hunt animals for food.

But,because I already knew the comfort of the modern life,it would be miserable to live in the wild.

I agree living alone in the wild would be hard, but if you had a sort of group system tribe it wouldnt be so hard...
And...when I go to Newfoundland, we dont buy our food...We only eat what we've hunted and....we dont gather but we eat what we grow ourselves.

I would personally go to someplace like Newfoundland because it would be easy to live in the wild....there is abundant and accessible holistic medicines and many places like caves, safe from the brutality of nature and weather to live in peace..The weather is mild unless you live on the shore, by the ocean and if you live in a city it can be dangerous. Living in the city is harder than living in the country, sometimes snowbanks get up to 12 feet high on the roads.The people where I go are already pretty old fashioned themselves and are also rely strongly on those in their communities...they build their own homes out of what theyve salvaged on their own with no money spent....they hunt and grow their own food and most dont have to pay taxes on their homes..
The only problem is that in the modern age, it gets quite hard. The more modern people, the government and the Americans can kick them off their properties because they didnt buy the land and own no deeds...basically squaters rights.

And, honestly...being shunned by society wouldnt bother many people a bit. I spend most of my times in the wild with animals anyway. I never see anyone outside of school and then, Im forced to see these people against my will.

But I will admit.. I will miss metal music.

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Amen to that 

well maybe would should just stick to primitve camping for the week

metal? come one rock n roll!

Bjarn - I think you've missed the point of 'discussion' or arguing as I like to call it :-)
The entire point of having an argument is that you are trying to change the other persons opinion :-)
That's the whole fun of it.
Obviously the better the arguer the more you believe it was your idea in the first place. So while someone just plain telling you you're wrong is still arguing - it's not very good arguing and should be treated as such. But by entering into discussion on a subject you are effectively soliciting someone elses point of view and therefore shouldn't really whinge when they argue back at you :-)
(can you tell I'm currently avoiding work lol)

As for missing metal - take an mp3 player and a solar powered battery charger - the entire manowar back catalogue will fit onto 1gb (including the 2 live double albums). You could always claim it was a found artifact. Primitives used tools, so why not use a modern tool for music :-)

There are people who have gone primative and have thrived. One is Sylvan Hart, who lived for nearly 50 years on the Salmon river in Idaho. He did everything there, from hunting, to actually creating and rifling his own gun barrels. There is a book on his life called " The Last of the Mountain Men" by Harold Petersen
  There is another book called " The Last American Man", which chronicles a modern day primative living in North Carolina. The Old Ways still survive.

I'd be listening to Therion to psyche myself up for The Big Hunt. Anyone not familiar with them, they're a swedish death metal band famous for incorporating harmonious semi-arias and orchestral bits into slamming metal songs. One of my favourite bands, actually. But, I admit, I would miss modern music. I really like having my CDs, but I could definitely do without TV and computers.