The Importance of Staying on Top of Everything

I don't think it's a coincidence that right at the time when the Enlightenment was sort of mowing down the idea of a religious basis for everything, they were also starting to measure everything and become very scientific about the world. So again, what we're seeing is this sort of the efforts that we go to in this culture to overcome nature in order to maintain this imagined ideal of culture as something that's made of right angles. And I think maybe this need to stay on top of everything and maybe reflects our need to control the universe to control our lives. When the church was controlling everything and all you had to do was do what the priest said and live a good life and stay in