> If you have a civilization, you have a vision about life, Do you? Your 'civilization' doesn't run on some kind of command economy five-year-cultural plan. I

> If you have a civilization, you have a vision about life, Do you? Your 'civilization' doesn't run on some kind of command economy five-year-cultural plan. Its values and views of what's good and bad are just some (often dystopian) local maximum it's stuck in. Not to mention the obvious - what if you strongly disagree with your civilization's values?