It's Not Our Worlds Fault.

The fallacy here is blaming the complexity of our lives on the complexity of our environment. How many people have told me they would love to live on some remote South Sea island or get back to the good old horse—and—buggy days when Sunday was spent visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm? It doesn’t work because we bring our feverish, unintegrated selves to these remote places. Simplicity of life does not depend upon simplicity of environment. The real problem lies within. Outer distractions reflect a lack of inner integration. “We are trying to be several selves at once. There is the civic self, the parental self, the financial self, the spiritual self, the society self, the professional self. And yet we are uneasy, strained, and fearful that we are shallow.” ( he is quoting, Peck, The Different Drum)
(Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)