In America, many people feel that our society is suffocating, controlling and way too dependent on technology’s addicting advances. Some even feel the need to abandon civilization all together and escape to the wild where they can be free and reconnect with what really matters. If people feel the need to escape from society, there must be something wrong with it or it must not be able to supply everything an individual desires. This leads to the conclusion that the rawness and simplicity of the wild is able to provide something necessary that the endless materialism, bustle and addicting technology of the American lifestyle can not.