Modern Life In The Movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy

Within the movie, "The Gods Must be Crazy", the depiction of modern life is similar and different to how I perceive life to in our part of the world today. The similarities consist of adapting our environment to suit ourselves, forcing more school on future children to make it in the world, and having our day chopped up into little pieces. While the difference we have is the concept of working doesn’t apply to everyone and we don’t have to continuously adapt to our segmented day every day because we become accustomed to it. Our first similarity is that we continue to adapt our environment to suit ourselves and the movie demonstrates this through technological advances. Such as building cities to live in, roads to travel on, vehicles to drive, and powerline to run labor-saving devices. This continues into our world today and technology keeps advancing every day. Our creation of vehicles to drive to …show more content…
The movie demonstrates this by leaving your house at 7:30am to go to work, 8:00am start work, 10:30am take a 15-min break, and 10:45am go back to work. Just like this our daily life we live into today is chopped into little pieces and we must accomplish certain things during each segment. For example, I go to school Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30am till 2:00pm. This means from 7:00am-8:30am I am waking up and getting ready to make my way to school. After all my classes at 2:00pm I am making my way back home from school than making food to eat. Then after this, I am doing homework and whatever is left after this is my free time. This shows that even today in our current world my day is chopped up into little pieces and each piece has their own goal I must accomplish. I perceive other people having to do this with work, school, family, and their free time to be able to survive in the way our current society is set