That doesn’t make sense.

And he is objectively not right. He is right only if you adopt an ethnocentric view which substitutes the security of grocery store access for the security of other, more important things.

Besides, modern life is not so great if you are a modern sex slave or woman in Iraq or child in Syria or basically any other developing nation. Or on a Native American reservation in the US.

Security for some has come at great cost for absolutely everyone else.