>>2711255>These individuals and communities then become dependent upon the technology, which encourages further obedienceNot so sure about this. Once you figure out it's all a bunch of horseshit, it's relatively easy to abandon technology in part, if not in full. Clearly I'm not practicing the latter, otherwise I wouldn't be posting here, but you get the point. Being 'dependent' on technology really is a bunch of smoke and mirrors - it's just that that's what people are used to, and it's always the issue of "better the devil you know than the devil you don't" with them.
Not to be a doomer, but with the looming spectre of war in the western world I think more and more people realise what has been built could come tumbling down with relative ease.
Part of the issue is that humans are social beings, and even though some individuals may realise that something is wrong with the way we do things, there is incredible pressure from the larger community on fringe communities. That's a horrid challenge to overcome; you have to be very steadfast in what you believe.