• its when humans get together, build cities, create art, make laws and occasionally invent bureaucracy just to keep things interesting

  • key attributes
    • territory

    • governance

    • economy

    • technology

    • art

    • architecture

    • language

  • civilization types as key to understand our underdevelopment
  • look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: spirits of religion, creative art, research, and business enterprise

  • unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace