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Civilization Is A Disease
Civilization Is A Disease ‘Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.’ George Bernard Shaw placed that line in ‘Maxims for Revolutionists’, appended to Man and Superman, and the sentence still shocks because it does not merely criticise modernity; it pathologises it. Shaw, a leading Fabian and public intellectual, belonged to a reformist socialist milieu that believed society could be engineered gradually and rationally from above. Yet that same rationalist confidence often shaded into something darker: population management, elite planning, and the fantasy that humanity itself could be improved by sorting, disciplining, breeding, excluding, and sometimes eliminating the ‘unfit’. Shaw’s line can therefore be read not only as a critique of civilization, but as an unwitting confession about one of civilization’s recurring diseases: the educated elite’s urge to redesign humanity. ([online-literature.com][1])
By Peter Ayolov5 days ago in Critique
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Good analogy, honest didn't even think about the last part. It was basically just a giant collage party with a weird spooky element to it.
It was so nostalgic watching that trailer. I was 12 in 2002 and I don't remember if I've watched this movie. But I did watch a Scoody Doo movie where the Mystery Gang would have swapped bodies and Shaggy would end up in Daphne’s body. And he'll be like "Don't you ever eat". I don't know whether it's this movie or a different one.
Interesting’…