The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

