“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Albert Einstein
“We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way” George Bernard Shaw.
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” John Muir
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.” Simgunt Freud
“The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.”
Rabindranath TagoreNow my humble questions:
- do you think that we are trully civilized nations?
- is it good or bad for humans to live in a civilized society?
- what is, in your view, the biggest advantage/disadvantage of any civilization?
- is it really possible to die of civilization?
- would a return to an "uncivilized" way of life help people at all?
