@burnoutqueen its just "civilization" as commonly understand has from its founding led to a reduction of quality of life from its founding whether in Mesopotamia, china, Mexico, Egypt or wherever else. It led to worse health, lowered life expectancy, less down time on and on. Given that I don't understand trying to claim "civilization" has anything to do with "quality of life improvements" . The other metrics are equally questionable given for example literacy for its first several Millennium was almost exclusively used to record populations, land and agricultural outpouts to allow the ruling class to better exploit the people they control.

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@burnoutqueen I mean this is what "civilization" has always been the hierarchical ordering of society by exploitation. "Barbarism" has always always just been used to criticize a group opposing the "civilized" in group and its expansionist projects. This is hardly an "inversion" and is just always what these ideas have been meant and used for.

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