It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
I become drunk as circumstances dictate.
Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.