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The internet is weird, and people use it in freaky ways – we're going to have to go through this learning curve as a civilisation about what it is to have these things.
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Even as a civilisation, we're all about evolution, although we prefer to call it progress.
The Arcades book, whatever our verdict on it - ruin, failure, impossible project - suggests a new way of writing about a civilisation using its rubbish as materials rather than its artworks: history from below rather than above.
The banal Hollywood industry of turning piquant comics (including his) into mediocre blockbuster films is boring, and there is potentially something absurd about a civilisation that thinks graphic novels are way cooler than actual novels.
This everyday history can tell us a lot about a civilisation.
This argument is the most interesting (and contentious) part of Mr Jacques's book, rather than his workaday account of Chinese history or the overlong prose about China being a "civilisation state" rather than a "nation state .The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
By extension, it's like suggesting that the Holocaust was a necessary evil in order to teach western civilisation about the dangers inherent in racism.
What is civilisation about?
The theme for these two collections of essays might be considered to be the search for knowledge about subjects, such as ancient civilisations, about which we can never be totally sure.
"People think the West cares more about the civilisation than about the people who created or initiated this civilisation".
While possessed of the kind of inner confidence and experience that comes from being the heirs of a great civilisation, the Chinese have no illusions about where they have got to and the tasks that lie ahead.
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