Hi Bentlee...it's always a choice....sometimes it's our ties to the past belief that hold us back. I think there is another way...but it is not the norm. Perhaps some day...more will flock to the real.

I don't think things are that desperate, Bentlee, this happens to be just another phase, when old-fashioned relations are being modified due to circumstances you describe. There's another, good side to technological progress - people of the world are being drawn closer because we've actually achieved all the things the poet predicted:
"...bridge the seas,
Or ride secure the cruel sky,
Or build consummate palaces
Of metal or of masonry" and many more,
which helped me personally to address you, dear poet, from nowadays, not past, and say:
"Since I can never see your face,
And never shake you by the hand,
I send my soul through time and space
To greet you. You will understand." (James Elroy Flecker)

Many thanks for sharing this poem with us, kindest regards!