I'm reminded of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with that line. In that book the author points out an apparent contradiction: people who loudly proclaim to be anti-technology are often the most reliant on it while people who loudly praise technology are often the most able to survive without it.
I feel the same, trevize. I grew up very rural, where much of my family were farmers. Not very big commercial farms, just 2 person self sufficient farms using very old equipment (as a kid in the 80s and 90's I remember them using the old International Harvester H and M and the old John Deer B plus a few newer tractors. When I was a kid some of my favorite memories were simply playing in the woods, creek stomping, fishing and looking for crayfish in the creek on the farm, getting the cows (or often the one territorial bull) to chase us across the field as we jumped into an old hay wagon for cover. Good thing my grandparents never found out about that last one lol. But I was a tech geek, enamored with hi-tech stuff as a kid and inspired by Star Trek and things like that, went to college for electronics engineering... Never worked for NASA like I hoped to lol, but after a couple decades working in tech, I am very eager to get back to that amish-like lifestyle. I plan on retiring early and doing just that, in an off-grid remote home. For fun I don't need tech or lots of money, my favorite things are hiking in the mountains, cycling country roads, and paddling the numerous waterways around my stompin' grounds. I haven't started on that yet, still looking for property and can't move for a while. So in the meantime I enjoy honing some of my homesteading skills by heating almost exclusively from wood (I cut it all myself and hand split), gardening, hunting deer, canning food, handcrafting and diy'ing all sorts of stuff around the house, etc. Of course I realize the benefit and want some technology, like solar panels and batteries, indoor plumbing, a computer to look up information etc, but I don't need all wifi-enabled appliances, alexa or a smart-tv in every room, etc. I guess you could say I appreciate technology where it truly helps, but despise where it has infiltrated our normal lives so much where it is unnecessary steals from our skills or makes us lazy, or something just for companies to profit from it.