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This seems like too much of a stretch. "A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of a political state, social stratification, urb
by gspetr 4y ago
This seems like too much of a stretch.
"A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of a political state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system)."
Even in most post-apocalypse antiutopia science fiction, all of these attributes are present except perhaps urbanization. E.g. a roving gang with a warlord at its helm has a political state and social stratification, and they would still have access to pencils.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Even in most post-apocalypse antiutopia science fiction, all of these attributes are present except perhaps urbanization. That's the key one for real property (well, settled agricultural society probably more than urbanization per se, but if you have one you probably have the other.) > E.g. a roving gang with a warlord at its helm has a political state and social stratification, and they would still have access to pencils. But probably not have a system of real (as opposed to personal) property. Which is my point.