A lot of the bad parts of our current version of civilization are just un-optimized implementation details.

Isn't it our species' imperative to create as many happy and healthy humans as we can manage? Part of the problem is that we have instead optimized most of civilization for maximum dollar production.

When we can figure out how to build health and happiness (or rather: emotional well-being) into the goals of our society, we will finally get past this semi-intellectual hand-wringing about the mythical Noble Savage and his perfect life we cast aside.