A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man “aight it’s been real but im disappearing into the woods forever.”
The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts “you can’t just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!”
The man’s expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter’s backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds “but he could. And he did.”
The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. “And no one ever saw him again.”
https://people.com/family-living-off-the-grid-died-of-malnutrition-hypothermia-autopsy-7965000
The reality in most developed nations is that people do not have the skills required anymore and even if they did the environment is not and never has been capable of supporting 8 billion apes strip foraging the wilderness. Modern farming techniques and medicine are both why the global population has exploded in the last two centuries and the loss of either will immediately devastate humanity.
Tl;Dr that shit was hard when people knew mostly what to do and you don’t
People have forgotten how easy it is to die. Doctors would slip while doing an autopsy and die from sepsis within a week
Most of us would die :(