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| last edited by BillSeitz on Sep 1, 2008 9:33 pm |
What IsA Civilization? In elementary school I was taught it was any social organization meeting 3 criteria:
build cities (UrbAn)
Here's a list of 5 requirements, which seems poorly structured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization
In college I enjoyed [Sigmund Freud]'s "Civilization and its Discontents" (excerpt )
No-one ever expects the Collapse Of Complex Societies!
As my "IsA" usage implies, why does it matter how one defines civilization? It only matters when one generalizes. "Because A IsA civilization,...", either "it's better than B which isn't" or "it alienates people", or whatever.
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