Great opening lines - this could be turned into a story!
The rest of the message is familiar. I usually feel the same way, but sometimes, I'm grateful for technological advances, like the one allowing me to read your story from across the globe. In my simple childhood on a 1960s-1980 farm, it would have taken many steps and much time to gain access to your writing. So, long live the internet! now, about the roads and too many trucks/cars, not enough trains and mass transit, too many housing development in the suburbs, too much excess, redundancy, and all -- yes, let's look back to earlier peoples for a model of what we can do without.