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They want the same civilisation as we want, and to be part of it.
But when it comes to the really important stuff – how to build a state, an economy, a hospital, or a weapon – almost all of us belong to the same civilisation.
In his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, published in 1939, the American art critic Clement Greenberg marvelled: "One and the same civilisation produces simultaneously two such different things as a poem by TS Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover".
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The Hindu temple was built mainly in the 11th and 12th centuries, by the same Khmer civilisation that built Angkor Wat.
There were those in Cambridge who thought he was planning to do the same to western civilisation.
Where it goes wrong is when loneliness becomes chronic, and the inflammatory response becomes chronic at the same time.Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare (because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
Ironically, this is the same clash of civilisations that was driving the protesters outside the opera house last night.
The same is true of civilisation, too.
Wine is one of the markers of European civilisation; the same, I'm afraid, can't be said about the drink that contemporary teenagers put away so as to get drunk before they even leave home on a Friday.
One of the highest selling Greek weekly newspapers, Proto Thema, referred to Skopje's monument habit as "a tacky attempt to create the illusion of a historic past reminding people more of Disneyland than of an ancient civilisation".The same paper, along with the popular daily Vima, ran articles condemning Angela Merkel for referring to "FYROM" as "Macedonia".
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