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civilization
"The greatest advances of
civilization,
whether in architecture or painting,
science and
literature, industry or agriculture,
have never come from
centralized government."
Milton Friedman
"The degree of
civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."
Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky
or
"A society that no longer
recognizes that nature and human life
have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, commits
collective suicide. Such societies cannibalize themselves until they
die."
Christopher Lynn Hedges
"The tribal lifestyle
isn't precious because it's beautiful or lovable or because it's "close to
nature." It isn't even precious because it's "the natural way for people to
live." To me, this is gibberish. The tribal life is
precious because it is tested out. For 3,000,000 years it worked for people. It
worked for people the way nests work for birds, the way webs work for spiders,
the way burrows work for moles. That doesn't make it lovable, it makes it
viable." - David Sheen, The Great
Remembering
"There are no tribes
beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible
Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and
submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal
plunder exhausted the
land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich,
they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor
the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal
eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter,
plunder, they give the lying
name of Empire; they
make a desert and call it peace." - Tacitus
"The
Empire that emerged
under Diocletian and
Constantine was
administered by a government that was larger, more complex, more highly
organized, and that commandered larger and more powerful military forces. It
taxed its citizens more heavily, conscripted their labor, and regulated their
lives and their occupations. It was a coercive, omnipresent, all-powerful
organization that subdued individual interests and levied all resources toward
one overarching goal: THE SURVIVAL OF THE STATE."
- Joseph A. Tainter
A
civilization is defined as a social culture in an advanced state of material
development marked by arts and sciences, extensive
record-keeping, including writing, and complex political and social
institutions.
For a civilization to function and
remain viable the citizens must continually agree that the laws are just.
Citizens of any and all forms of goverment must have the ability to
solicit for modification of laws so the law continues to remain just under
changing circumstances.
A failure on the part of any faction of citizens
to respect law, especially leaders, undermines the very foundations upon which
the civilization has been built and results in a collapse of the
civilization.
The
best preserved ancient written code
of law was carved in basalt around 1760 BC in Babylon.
The
Code of Hammurabi consisted of
282 laws in total.
The purpose of the
Code of Hammurabi was to allow
justice to prevail in the land,
to prevent the strong from oppressing the
weak and to further the welfare of the people.
The earlier Code of
Ur-Nammu (21st century BC), the Hittite laws (ca. 1300 BC), and
Mosaic Law (ca. ~ 1300 BC under
Moshe Rabbenu), all contain
statutes that bear a remakable resemblance to those in the
Code of Hammurabi and other law
codices from the same geographic area in the Levant.
six requirements of civilzation
For any group to start a civilization, six attributes are
required.
These attributes are 6 interlocking interwoven systems
of:
law
trade
writing
taxation
government
- most important attribute
-
specialization of labor in a
caste system
The collapse of any civilization is directly
related to multiple
factors but the overriding factor is the inability to
adjust to change.
"So often we see ourselves as a lonely
cultural pinnacle, superior beyond all comparison. But if recent excavations at
Stonehenge offer anything, they put our era in perspective, reminding us of an
unbroken lineage shared across continents and cultures. We are simply an extension of an ancient age,
living now in the next lost civilization." - Craig Childs |
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever
has." - Margaret Mead
"The _civilized man_, is he whom experience and
sociality have enabled to draw from nature the means of his own happiness,
because he has learned to oppose resistance to those impulses he receives from
exterior beings, when experience has taught him they would be destructive to
his welfare. " - Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach a
citizen is defined as:
a civilian
a civilized man
a
native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place
a resident of a
city or
village, especially one
entitled to vote and enjoy other
privileges there
an individual owing loyalty to and
entitled by birth or naturalization
to the protection of a state
citizens are required to obey onerous laws
- even ill conceived, unjust and brutal
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