Floating in a virtual world

There are three basics to survival in this world but lately there seems to be some confusion as to what they may be. I have always been under the assumption that those items were food, water and shelter, but there seems to be a contender lately - time, money and pills.

We, generally speaking, have moved from a physical world to a virtual world. No longer are we tied to a world governed by sunlight. No longer are we bound to face-to-face communication. And no longer are we confined to work the land in order to provide means of survival for ourselves and for our family.

We have advanced and we now live by a clock versus the sun. We have moved beyond an exchange of goods to an exchange of money - a system in which the value of the dollar is dictated by an artificial syndicate we call the economy. And no longer do we create - we simply regurgitate.

And in this new advanced world we make it each day by chasing time, material wealth and possessions, and the latest drug or pill that promises to cure all our problems. Isn't it ironic that we're so-called in need of these pills because we're stressed out and overworked due to chasing time and money?

What would happen if we slowed down and re-entered the physical world where food, water and shelter were our main concerns? What would happen if we once again became one with nature and worked the land? What would happen if we once again became a community who cared and who shared rather than competed and cheated?

It would be nice if we returned to such simpler times.