We create schedules, routines and habits to build an illusion of certainty, linearity and an expected order of events and circumstances.
Governments, religions and institutions know this mental need of certainty and create an illusion of stability in peoples minds by providing them with rules, laws and rituals.
Even if we know something is certain, it may or may not be true, just a trick of our mind for it to feel stable.
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