Typical is Alfred North Whitehead, who wrote, "The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur".
But we also know that transitioning to some kind of a new economy -- and, probably, a new governing model to match -- will be a civilization-wrenching process.
With or without America, Asia is shaping the world's destiny — and exposing the flaws of the grand narrative of Western civilization in the process.
Parag Khanna, in "The Second World" (Random House; $29), informs us, rather gleefully, that "Asia is shaping the world's destiny — and exposing the flaws of the grand narrative of Western civilization in the process.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
This did not come from a certain civilization or thought process, but from an inner realization - it was just an outpouring of himself.
Gary Marbut, president of the influential Montana Shooting Sports Assn., wrote in 2003 that "one might reasonably view man's entire development and creation of civilization as a process of fortifying against wolves". Politicians from both parties in Western states have been eager to help with the fortifications.
Domestication has been essential to the progress of human civilization, and the process itself has fascinated biologists for hundreds of years.
Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response.
Radd has become dissatisfied with his undemanding life on the paradise-like Zenn-La and jumps at Galactus' offer of a life in the stars, reasoning that he could find uninhabited planets for his master to devour and save countless civilizations in the process.
