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Civilisation is not a state of mind. That doesn't make any sense, because it is completely at odds with how the word is used in practice, e.g. "Aztec civilisat
by mkl 6y ago
Civilisation is not a state of mind. That doesn't make any sense, because it is completely at odds with how the word is used in practice, e.g. "Aztec civilisation", "Western civilisation", "Modern civilisation". The actual definition of civilisation is about structured culture and communities: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilization https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilization
- bregma 6y agoThe wiktionary definition of "civilized" [0] is "Having a highly developed society or culture" -- developed into what, late Victorian era upper-class British men, like the people who wrote the OED the definition was cribbed from? The human species, especially those of highly developed society and culture, have a long record of exterminating others of their kind on the grounds that the others are "uncivilized". Civilization is purely a state of mind. A species that achieved enlighnment before inventing the wheel or harnessing fire can be no less "civilized" than one that will engage in intraspecies mass murder for the right to enslave other members of their own species. I would argue they are more civilized, in fact. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilized https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilized
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