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@hidden In the Books of Genesis, Enoch, and Jubilees, you have a very similar primitivist idea. Humanity begins with a lifespan of a thousand years, but the more artificial they become, the shorter their lives become.

What shortens your life, causes dissatisfaction, and further depart you from Eden are things like tools, make-up, towns, and magical rituals.

The solution in this tradition isn't to abstain from these things, though. It's the perfection of them. The first town is founded by murder, the first kingdom is founded by war, but the way to perfect this, in the Abrahamics, isn't to put the genie in the bottle, it's to perfect the structure. One would expect in the Christian eschaton, there would be factories, computers, and art, but without the poisonous elements of those things (some medievals more or less abandon the idea of physical Resurrection but that's not faithful to what came before)