"People in that state"
Certainly do not desire to work in factories untill someone has bombarded them with propaganda about the joys of doing so.
I don't give a fig for the romance of the primitive. But it is darn useful to be able to study how humans organize themselves and how they behave, when they did not get all their culture from the TV. When it's gone, it's gone for good. Everything the same. No saved off cultures to begin again from if this one finds a dead end.
And no, Lee did not make a good point, he only aimed (yet another) ignorant slam at me. Kinda like your ignorant slam at anthropologists.