Territory's job was to capture the alternate history of an iPhone-less civilization and the vast chasm between rich and poor within the devices people use in their day to day.
The name Babylon rang with deep significance for Iraqis long schooled in their role as descendants of the people who more or less invented civilization.
Mr. Izzard, whose theme is nothing less than civilization and its multifarious contents, traffics in delirious, dizzying circles of ideas and images.
In the 1980 Times interview, Mr. Philipson described university publishing as nothing less than civilization's keeper of the flame, the only outlet for the dense scholarship and grandest, often unwieldy works of the world's intellectual giants.
"History has proved again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well-intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous," Picard says in the TNG episode "Symbiosis".
The less-advanced civilization quickly adopted the mojo of the new guys.
A galactic club may, William Hamilton speculates, set extremely high entrance requirements that are unlikely to be met by less advanced civilizations.
Put another way, if ET is so advanced, shouldn't they have something equivalent to Star Trek's Prime Directive in which they make every effort to avoid meddling in the development of less advanced civilizations?
"That concern comes from when any of us explored the world... and came upon a civilization less advanced, it was bad for the less-advanced civilization.
Historical examples show that the greater the distance, the less the contacted civilization perceives a threat to itself and its culture.
important, that what we are watching unfold, on magnificent sets astutely copied from the Roman Forum, old Jerusalem and other historic sites, is no less than Western Civilization itself.
