History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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 never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
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