most of the world today are literal barbarians and we dont appreciate it enough
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barbarity is the opposite of civility
im halfway through sigmund frueds "civilization and its discontents" (i know hes a weird jew faggot but he was intelligent and insightful whatever)
he writes that 3 of the prerequisites for civilization are order, cleanliness and beauty (there are more than three but these are important), my immediate thought was that india is lacking in the first and devoid of the other two, but then also most of the third world is like that.
the western world is slowly losing all of these, and thinking about it, some asian societies are some of the only places probably that has a good grasp on those three right now. i dunno why it hit me now that these people (third worlders) are the actual barbarians always spoken of, in a literal sense. these people dont have a civilization right now and most other civilizations right now are devolving into barbarity.
perhaps i thought they had to be cutting heads off in the streets to meet the criteria or something, but i think everyone should appreciate that the barbarians are already inside the walls literally
sorry if i sound like i just read a book and now i think im smart, because that is what happened actually
thoughts?
im halfway through sigmund frueds "civilization and its discontents" (i know hes a weird jew faggot but he was intelligent and insightful whatever)
he writes that 3 of the prerequisites for civilization are order, cleanliness and beauty (there are more than three but these are important), my immediate thought was that india is lacking in the first and devoid of the other two, but then also most of the third world is like that.
the western world is slowly losing all of these, and thinking about it, some asian societies are some of the only places probably that has a good grasp on those three right now. i dunno why it hit me now that these people (third worlders) are the actual barbarians always spoken of, in a literal sense. these people dont have a civilization right now and most other civilizations right now are devolving into barbarity.
perhaps i thought they had to be cutting heads off in the streets to meet the criteria or something, but i think everyone should appreciate that the barbarians are already inside the walls literally
sorry if i sound like i just read a book and now i think im smart, because that is what happened actually
thoughts?
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Let me follow your argument.
>Barbarity is opposite of civility.
>Sigmund said in his book that civilization requires 3 attributes.
>Third world countries lack those attributes.
>Therefore, thirdworlders are barbarians.
There are many issues with this, the most obvious of which is the false equivalence between the term civility and the term civilization. They sound the same, but they are 2 completely different words. I think that alone is enough to refute your entire premise.
>Barbarity is opposite of civility.
>Sigmund said in his book that civilization requires 3 attributes.
>Third world countries lack those attributes.
>Therefore, thirdworlders are barbarians.
There are many issues with this, the most obvious of which is the false equivalence between the term civility and the term civilization. They sound the same, but they are 2 completely different words. I think that alone is enough to refute your entire premise.
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