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As a promoter of individual liberty, human well-being and social harmony, which alone constitute real order, government stands condemned by all the great men of the world.
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The chief features of his [the city's engineer's] plan are based on what he aptly calls 'pistol architecture,' and includes provisions for no-shooting precincts fenced high with steel, the construction of circular and wavy road design to increase the difficulties of gun-dueling, the erection of high shatter-proof glass screens running down the centers of roads to prevent effective cross-firing, and the setting up of heavily protected television cameras at all strategic positions in the towns in order to relay information twenty-four hours a day to a vast new centralized police force equipped with fleets of helicopters.
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Civilization now rests upon force. It rests not only on guns and bombing planes, but on prisons, concentration camps, and the policeman's truncheon.... [But] the use of force makes real progress impossible. The good society is one in which human beings are equal and in which they cooperate with one another willingly and not because of fear or economic compulsion.
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Is there perhaps an alternative management strategy, more practical than ideological, that would direct the growth of complex societies along routes that rendered monumental "signposts to permanence" unnecessary?
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Are we, then, a civilized people? Has the Man of today, still living by bloodshed, still striving to grow rich at the expense of his neighbor, still using torture in punishment, still seeking sport in destruction, still waging fratricidal wars, and, while making a hell on earth, claiming for himself an eternal heaven hereafter—has this selfish, predatory being arrived at a state of “civilization”?
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...the whole history of Civilization is the history of the struggle between those obeying the old laws and those establishing the new.
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When there is a conflict between moral and political law, should not moral law have the last word?
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : Civilization -- Added.
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