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How Men Stole Civilization
Civilization is back. But it is no longer the preserve of “Renaissance man” or of “the West,” or even of literate societies. Civilization is a way of talking about human history on the largest scale. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to the latest MoMA exhibition, it binds human history together.
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You might also explore how men made something, because they did have a small part in all of it. This whole rewriting of history is total nonsense.
If this guy wants to view civilization in another way, that's not rewriting history. How easily threatened must one be to mind an appreciation, like this one, of history writ small? How tender? How delicate?
Mind you, it's obviously written by someone gorged on a propaganda diet — oh! our poor put-upon Al Qaeda takfiri boys in Aleppo, hypocritically contrasted with the spontaneous order emerging from blessed righteousness in its exact counterpart in Mosul — but hey, I hadn't heard about the concert he described. That was interesting, if nothing else.