Civilisation is “a sense of permanence”—connecting with society’s history, being optimistic about the present, and having aspirations for the future.
We’re living through what can only be described as the process of decivilisation. The unraveling of the great gains of our society and the great culture of our society and the problematisation of these things as too male, too white, too old fashioned and not really appropriate or fitting to the modern era.