Foxy,

If you had any grasp of the English language you would recognise the difference between a person or persons being described as civilised and a civilisation. You are almost as bad as the ignoramus Pauliar.

A person that is well-mannered and considerate is often described as civil or civilised.

Civilization is focused on large groups or nations, not individuals.

shadowminister,

You're seriously questioning my grasp of the English language?

Well Sir, I'll match my Masters in English Lit. with
your apparent vocabulary limitations on this forum
After all - you're the one
who goes around unable to refer to people by their proper
given names - you refer to - Juliar, Pauliar, Krudd, and so on.

As for civilization? I like the following:

"I do not think the measure of a civilization
is how tall its buildings of concrete are but
rather how well its people have learned to relate
to their environment and fellow man."

( Sun Bear
Chippewa Tribe).

Hi Is Mise,
Yes I know modern humans have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA
Did you watch the short videos I added?
- They're interesting short videos.
Apparently they weren't as human-like how we commonly picture them to be though, they were apex predator night hunters.
They could see well in very low light (big red eyes) and were also cannibalistic,
Maybe similar to the Eloi and Morlocks from HG Wells Time Machine,
They hunted, raped and killed our distant ancestors...

- Depending on what you believe, religious-wise that is.
I think at some point our daytime dwelling ancestors turned the tide and hunted them and wiped them out.
Maybe ancient humans learned how to set pit-traps?

Apparently there's some kind of missing link in DNA and Darwin's understanding of things.
All this is speculation of course, based on fossils and anthropologists view of things;
- As always I wasn't there so don't really know...

Hitler and Stalin most likely thought in terms of what is necessary, and not good and bad.
Paul1405,
Has your quack put on sanity tablets ? Looks like you're starting to think !
Running a nation requires focussing on issues that prevent that nation from imploding such as collective responsibility rather than individual rights !.
The climate & economic issues that are threatening our very existence are plainly a result of individual rights & no responsibilities.

Well BAYGON,

It seems you're not about to defend your claims about Blainey and Sturt. I'll put the relevant source material back on my bookshelves - but they will remain at hand.

Civilisations are simply episodes of human evolvement. They happen alternately.
Surely, some people can see that civilisations can't all peak at the the same time ? Some have come & gone & some are already on the second or third return run whereas others are still in the pipeline for a first term. What Westerners call stone Age people are more than likely future apex civilisations. Judging by the antics of Westerners over the past 50 years it's not too difficult to imagine they will be the next Stone Age lot !