In several tours of Europe, the general theme of civilization triumphing over savagery went over well.
It's like that congenital flaw is part and parcel of our arrogance, boorishness, Big Macs, loudness, low tastes, disdain for noble multilateralism and general deficit of civilization.
The election of 1932 arrived at one of those recurring moments when "the general problems of civilization change in such a way that new difficulties of adjustment are presented to government".
Hence, the widespread growth in the production and consumption of energy as well as contemporaneous changes like the decline in deaths due to contagious disease has been a key contributor to improving worldwide living standards, economic development, and the general advance of civilization [2, 3].
In 1990 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of the Czech Republic in 1993, told a joint session of the U.S. Congress, "Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better... and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed -- the ecological, social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable".
McKibben: The consumer culture in general has washed over our civilization.
Two: these dog and cat videos are sapping the United States, and civilization in general, of its greatness.
Identifies one as "the theory of the great crisis-the general crisis of Western civilization," in which America's failure is admitted but in the context of a general failure of the West.
William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times of London, wrote somewhat hyperbolically in 1996 that its construction would be "a disaster for the Victoria and Albert Museum in particular and for civilization in general".
