We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
I suspect that you have already lost it.
Do an experiment. Go out in some "natural" environment. Using ONLY the natural stuff you find there, no tools and nothing you brought with you, make a fire. Keep it burning for at least an hour. No metal. No string.
The ability to make and control fire is a very important part of what it means to be human.
Are you human?