Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
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