"Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he
adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads,
vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving
devices.
But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved
his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it.
So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to
learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were
born into.
And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings,
now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his
self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes
up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt
yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has
to look busy. 10:30 means you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And
then you have to look busy again.
And so your day is chopped into
pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit..."
- the Gods must be Crazy (1980)
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