What makes socialism unrealistic is that it gets economics almost perfectly backwards. It treats consumption as the priority, production as an afterthought, and wealth as something to redistribute rather than create. Capitalism, meanwhile, has demonstrated its productive capacity throughout history. The irony is that socialism depends so heavily on the wealth generated by capitalism that, even by socialists' own arguments for taxing and redistributing capitalist earnings, capitalism is what makes their preferred policies financially possible. An ideology that condemns the very process it depends upon should reconsider its premises.

People who romanticize raw nature almost never want to actually live in it, and for very good reason. They imagine Mother Nature as some gentle, nurturing paradise rather than the chaotic, indifferent, and often deadly environment humanity spent millennia struggling to survive. Disease, parasites, predators, starvation, exposure, and natural disasters are all perfectly natural. The irony is that the comfort, health, safety, and leisure that allow people to romanticize wilderness are largely products of the very technological progress they're dismissing. Nature doesn't love you. It doesn't even know you exist. Civilization is what made enjoying nature relatively safe.