Libertarian campaign pledge... Vote for me and I'll do nothing!
The modern world didn't just happen, we got dragged into it.
Knowledge is a 2 edged sword. Back in the 1800s a London
Doc figured out what was causing a plague. The very conservative
government didn't want to get involved, but they got dragged into it.
Repeat that a thousand times, and that's why you are sitting in front of
a computer that has more transistors than the total sum of transistors in
the world in 1968. You don't have to do "consumerism", but you still
have that computer.