The Gods Must Be Crazy
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:05:00
...is that they have
no sense of ownership at all.

:05:04
Where they live,
there's nothing you can own.

:05:06
Only trees and grass and animals.
:05:09
These Bushmen have never seen
a stone or a rock in their lives.

:05:13
The hardest things they know
are wood and bone.

:05:17
They live in a gentle world, where nothing
is as hard as rock, steel or concrete.

:05:26
Only 600 miles to the south,
there's a vast city.

:05:33
And here you find civilized man.
:05:59
Civilized man refused
to adapt himself to his environment.

:06:02
Instead he adapted his environment
to suit him.

:06:05
So he built cities, roads,
vehicles, machinery.

:06:08
And he put up power lines
to run his labour-saving devices.

:06:13
But he didn't know when to stop.
:06:15
The more he improved his
surroundings to make life easier...

:06:18
...the more complicated he made it.
:06:20
Now his children are sentenced to
10 to 15 years of school, to learn...

:06:24
...how to survive in this complex
and hazardous habitat.

:06:28
And civilized man, who refused
to adapt to his surroundings...

:06:32
...now finds he has to adapt
and re-adapt...

:06:35
...every hour of the day
to his self-created environment.

:06:39
For instance, if it's Monday...
:06:41
...and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-
adapt from your domestic surroundings...

:06:46
...and re-adapt yourself to an
entirely different environment.

:06:57
8:00 means everybody
has to look busy.


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