This horror story and academic treatise turns on the question: Why civilization?
The answer marks the first singularity, the contradiction of all that went before.
Our current Lebenswelt is not "the Lebenswelt that we evolved in". The first singularity entailed a simple alteration in the way humans talked. However, that little difference changed the ways that humans represented their world through language. Words are no longer referential (even though we are convinced that they are). Instead, words emerge from the realm of possibility.
"Everything that we evolved to be" passed through this singularity. We forgot who we were. We had to create who we are. We became civilized. But what is "civilization"?
"Civilization" is what we say it is.
Of course, this is madness. But look around you. What isn't madness? The first singularity left a fairy tale trace. Look in the Bible. The trace begins at Genesis 2:4.
Here is a portal to the Fourth Age of Understanding.