Seems like a long way of saying civilization was a mistake, which Yuval Noah Harari does in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Alternately, it could be read

Seems like a long way of saying civilization was a mistake, which Yuval Noah Harari does in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Alternately, it could be read as a description of how mental illness in large groups engendered by civilzation continues to plague us to this day.