I bring you exhibit 1
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4096950/posts?page=1
The Thinnest Veneer of Civilization
American Greatness ^ | September 28, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 9/29/2022, 12:42:31 PM by ProtectOurFreedom
Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life.
To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad, and safe at home—only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere survival.
Civilization alone permits humans to pursue sophisticated scientific research, the arts, and the finer aspects of culture.
So, the great achievement of Western civilization—consensual government, individual freedom, rationalism in partnership with religious belief, free market economics, and constant self-critique and audit—was to liberate people from daily worry over state violence, random crime, famine, and an often-unforgiving nature.
But so often the resulting leisure and affluence instead deluded arrogant Western societies into thinking that modern man no longer needed to worry about the fruits of civilization he took to be his elemental birthright.
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I bring you exhibit 1
James Burke BBC Connections - Technology Traps Scene (7 min video: if technology failed)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4097041/posts