Send us a text Since the pre-industrialized era, humans have largely been solely responsible for their own personal survival - that alone, was the primary objective: to survive long enough to produce offspring and wean them. And human activity was predominantly related to basic survival - water, food, shelter, energy. But as industry, modern agriculture, and technology have made survival easier and in a sense, guaranteed, humans found more time available for "higher pursuits" - art, music, li...