Out of the Frying Pan

There seem to me to be three levels of human organization: civilizations, societies, and cultures, each overlayed on the other. When people ignore culture, all they're left with is a civlization and society. When the inidviduals in a society become less and less social, only a civilization remains, until people start to be increasingly uncivil to each other, and then the whole thing falls apart. In the mad pursuit of what those who stand to profit the most call "economic gowth," culture has gone by the wayside, and our social fabric is breaking down. Turn on talk radio for evidence that civility is going out the window. There's plenty of reason for folks to be anxious. Apparently keeping people scared is supposed to be good for business.