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At this particular point in time, even going back 50 years would require its own transitional Dark Age. We are in a global economic and demographic conundrum of a situation that does not allow for even the slightest reversion.
On an individual level we can try to implement more methods for living as we did a long time ago. Bring back some old homesteading methods, for example. Returning to some aspects of this lifestyle has never been more crucial to our ecosystems or our sense of control over our livelihoods, but it's also never seemed more distant/foreign to us. It is particularly shunned by those who seek perpetual growth and prosperity and will use new financial magic tricks to fake it.
The old homesteading methods are extremely costly in today's world Have you checked the price of land lately? Further, few of us are really willing to go back to working from dawn to dusk just to keep food on the table, living without electricity, let alone the internet. No, going back isn't going to be an option for most of us.