Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
Whole generations have forgotten history.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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