Chris Ryan on Sex at Dawn and how civilisation is the heart of what's wrong with everything

Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist Stanley Krippner, a humanistic psychologist, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jürgen W. Kremer. LYRICS TO THE SONG: You've got emergency surgery and antibiotics Half your work done by a team of robotics Still you've confessed You're depressed And distressed and oppressed   What's the matter with you? You can travel through the sky sitting down in a chair Get a drink, eat a meal and there's wifi up there But at the slightest delay You complain Like it's the end of the world So why aren't you happy now? Why aren't you in awe You've been civilised to death You've got your mother in a home, kids at childcare You're working 7 days a week just to keep them there You've been promised all your free time When you're retired You're the pyre for the fire of incessant growth Where any movement's advancement or progress or both Youe’re like a falling man Who insists he’s flying So why aren't you happy now? Why aren't you in awe You've been civilised to death How much time still to put in? Can't be long 'til you're retiring Scratching on the walls until your time is up One last sup at the poisoned cup Take me back To the simple life When we surrendered To being alive We lived by the ocean And drank from the stream In a world of abundance Our lives were a dream We had all we needed Happy in our tribe Surrounded by beauty That you can't describe The trees gave us everything We worshipped the sun Nature was all And we were as one