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As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.
In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations.
Civilizations and cultures, which had been ignored, which had no voice, which were not listened to, which were not known about, will have a different sort of representation in this world.
As humanists, we must welcome, surely, this transformation, and we will have to learn about these civilizations.
For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.
Here, I was quoting from the grand, Pharaonic African cultures of the Nile Valley civilizations; namely, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, so as to imbue her with a stately, ironic, calm grandeur.
Think of it: there has never been anything so ubiquitous with such iconic optics to come out of Africa since the Nile Valley civilizations of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia.
We're burning fossil fuels at such a rate that we seem to be undermining the Goldilocks conditions that made it possible for human civilizations to flourish over the last 10,000 years.
The Indus civilization was roughly contemporaneous with the much better known Egyptian and the Mesopotamian civilizations, but it was actually much larger than either of these two civilizations.
The decipherment of these two scripts enabled these civilizations to speak to us again directly.
Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
That's one of the most profound insights to come out of the historical study of complex institutions like civilizations.
Maybe as civilizations develop, they quickly discover communication technologies far more sophisticated and useful than electromagnetic waves.
Perhaps intelligent civilizations come to realize that life is ultimately just complex patterns of information interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale.
Things like the buildings, the vehicles, the architecture, civilizations were all designed by the player up to this point.
Contrary to the clash of civilizations theory, Arabs didn't despise Western liberty, they desired it.
And then other people will say, "No, actually, the big stories, the big developments are the founding of the world's major religions, which have changed civilizations and have changed and influenced how countless people are living their lives."
And then some other folk will say, "Actually, what changes civilizations, what modifies them and what changes people's lives are empires, so the great developments in human history are stories of conquest and of war."
It's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations, the cultures, that we're seeing the current manifestation of.
Also at the millennium scale, we can look at the way of life of early civilizations such as the ones described in the Bible.
And you would think, would you not, that with all our science, with all our advances in society, with better towns, better civilizations, better sanitation, wealth, that we would get better at controlling mosquitos, and hence reduce this disease.
As you see, temples and gods play a big role in all ancient civilizations.
The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said, "Advanced Western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization."
Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally.
It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
Extraterrestrial civilizations could have started in the summer months.
It's a puzzle because we do expect these civilizations to exist, don't we?
Maybe advanced civilizations choose to explore inner space rather than outer space, or engineer at small distances rather than large.
There'll be worlds where, for whatever reason, civilizations either stay silent or don't spend long trying to communicate.
In my experience, when people sit down and do the math, they typically conclude there are thousands of civilizations in the galaxy.
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