An editorial said: "The stresses set up by the social changes wrought by the advent of technology are straining the structure of civilization beyond the limits of tolerance".
Such behavior is built into the structure of civilization itself.
From site-specific tracks released inside of Ubers, to videos shot with ever-ascending drones, each project is inundated with the new technologies redefining the structure of civilization and our place within it.
Pinned connections and journal bearings with cylindrical conforming contacts are widely used as fundamental building blocks in machines and civil structures of civilization.
Absinthe-green Art Nouveau fairies are having R-rated hallucinations with moon-faced satyrs and weeping skeletons and conspiring to pull down boxy structures of civilization with Alphonse Mucha-like jungle vines.
Musa's journey from friendly helper fascinated by the arcana of American lingo (a very funny scene dissects the meanings of the word "bitch") to disturbed opportunist represents the most painful illustration of how the appetite for destruction that man shares with predatory beasts is unloosed when the structures of civilization suddenly fall away.
In general, the political and social realms have been restructured in terms of economics, which has resulted in an entirely different shape to the primitive structures of civilization.
The French historian Fernand Braudel used the term "longue durée" to describe how changes in the deep socio-economic and technological structures of civilizations play out over long periods of time.
The slaves were ubiquitous in Mitchell's original, the supporting structure of the civilization she was defending and, in her view, largely happy with their lot.
Truman addressed that test in his final State of the Union message, writing that "the war of the future would be one in which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past — and destroy the very structure of a civilization that has been slowly and painfully built up through hundreds of generations.
"It's really a pretty crazy idea, even for me," he said, looking over a sparsely wooded basin where he has tentatively platted his Old West town, composed of all the familiar structures of frontier civilization — saloon, sheriff's office, general store, bank, hotel/brothel.
