Ooo! Strawman zingers? I love those! Can I get mine with a twist of lemon?

I'm the one conclude that concluded not that we should return to the Stone Age, but that we will return to the Stone Age - if we adopt the beliefs you've indicated in your article.

This "giant fraud" you refer to is only fraud if it was intentional - basically a global conspiracy. Humans are too stupid for that. The short-sightedness of human nature is such that many people appeared to be working collaboratively to set up a global social hierarchy. But it's only an appearance.

It's just what people do, especially when they become disconnected (at an interactional level) from other people.

I don't even believe it's possible to have "trust" in a concept (like civilization). The only entities we can trust are concrete things - individuals, not groups; specific actions, not the institutions that cause those actions.

In any case, the point of my comment was that you used unevidenced rhetoric to propose something. I'm not saying you're wrong (or right). I'm saying there's insufficient reason given in your article to even consider the question.