We mainly function on routine. Even risk becomes simply routine.

Many societies, especially conservative ones around the world, appear to exist in rejection of stimulation, cleaving to day to day processes within fixed concepts of life. Female children do this, male children do that: marraige is a necessity, the tedium of married life an expectation: employment is amongst professional classes where possible: get up, go to bed, grow old, and leave, if possible, a wizened corpse.