Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. Jeffrey Eugenides
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The first thing we do when we wake up is open our eyes and look around us. For some reason we want to be fully aware of everything we can see and hear. We step out of bed and start moving our body first thing, and we continue with the first activity of the day. If we go to work, we continue with that same routine.

When we come home, we may not even take a shower or change clothes. We just return to our routines as if nothing happened.

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