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civilization
"Civilization is a limitless
multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization largely
consists in hiding human
nature.
When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him
enlightened."
Samuel
Langhorne Clemens
"The degree of civilization in a society is
revealed by entering its prisons."
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
or
"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
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.
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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.
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
laws
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with the Creator and Sustainer through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality
in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human
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intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels
desire to control the human
race. The international corporate cartel
already controls the world economic system, corporate media worldwide, the
global industrial military entertainment complex and is responsible for the
collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior and the destruction of
global ecosystems. Civilization is based on cooperation. Cooperation does not
occur at the point of a gun.
American social mores and values have
declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international
cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to
deceive the populace in general through corporate media by pressing emotional
buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior
corporate media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction
of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to
the corrupt international elites vision of a
perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of
the bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the
corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which
further their purposes.
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