We were not aware that civilization was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skillfully put across and guilefully preserved. We had no respect for traditional wisdom and the restraints of custom.
This be the case? Is civilization a delicate artifice perpetrated with painful deliberateness by a legalistic elite against the mass of brutes? Or do men easily co-exist in a decent, peaceful and prosperous fashion, with order disrupted by schemers who take advantage of the majority's good nature to exploit and oppress?
My thoughts on the way, but I will say in advance that I'm often surprised by which side people choose.
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