I myself, like to believe the latter -- that we did, on some level, choose to be here…

..that's just a little too masochistic, (imo), to be true!
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Just recently the world was shocked to learn of the suicide of two prominent people,

...sorry to sound pedantic - but suicides...? (did you know there have been another 9 'suicides' by this same method - who were all connected to child abuse and/or the Clinton's?...just pointing it out, is all.)

Technology has created a disconnect with nature, and that is the fundamental problem, I think.
The most grounded, nicest, people I know are those that are in connection with the land.
(Working it, not some 'intellectual exercise'.)

Even living in nature gives you a 'sense of peace' not offered in any other way (that I have encountered).

The further we move away from the basics of nature, the more everything gets twisted from 'reality'...

Nice post, sir.