Me neither, but I like it.

Say what you want, but without television, there would be no Buffy, no Battlestar Galactica, no Sopranos, not Weeds, etc, etc, etc. And dear god, no XBox, Nintendo, Sega, or Playstation. Our capitalist hell of conspicuous consumption might be soulless, but I like all the stuff and so do you.

But what about the hard drugs and alcohol WD? What about them?

Mail me those seeds to your LSD plant.

Corrupted? There is no natural state of man other than living in caves and hoping not to be eaten by sabretooth tigers. You get to not have to deal with any of that. Have I thought about a rural existence? Sure. But I'd still be beholden to the rest of society if I wanted medical care or someone to make my toothpaste. And the video games and porn and comic books and **** it I'll just live in the non-pinko world.

no machines only plants amirite

Go grow me a new saxophone.

Yeah, and why don't you go plant me a pack of ciga- ... carry on.

why not go move to the jungle nobody is stopping you

Then after just one drought,
everyone would eat all of their money,
and be sad that they didn't just have some non-perishable unit of currency.

And if you want something other than raw resources,
or something that can only be found outside of your commune,
you're out of luck.

And there's also the issue,
of one jerk getting greedy,
and killing everyone else for their crops,
and then using their abundance of currency to buy mercenaries,
and very easily becoming the dictator of the commune.

There is a reason,
that people gave up the barter system en masse,
namely, because it sucks,
and is more easily abused than any other kind of economy.