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The problem is that civilisation needs culture even if it feels superior to it.
Civilisation needs to be wrested from nature by violence, but the violence lives on in the coercion used to protect civilisation - a coercion known among other things as the political state.
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Pyne likes to say that everyone is an expert on education because they went to school, but for his latest assignment on western civilisation he needs to present more supporting evidence.
"In the end," he writes early on "one did not need European civilisation, did not need power, did not need most of one's fellow men, who were saturated with most of these: finally, one would not need oneself".
The perils of Venice are real; this treasury of civilisation does need protecting.
But the civilisation instinct needn't be a forced one".
Like cities and civilisations, superheroes need their foundation myths.
Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together.
Though not given a narrative voice until adulthood, when he returns to visit the site, his need for heroes within the context of a crumbling civilisation - a need that resonates today - renders the novel a heartbreaking and compelling read.
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