Civic Society
A developed political economy; part of the sequence of civilisations which have risen and fallen during the last 10,000 years or so, whose traces are found in their architecture and artefacts.
Our own Western society—now reduced in intelligence and resilience, but much increased in size and complication in the form of the global market economy—is the latest in that sequence. In fact, not all of them have fallen. China, for instance, has gone through many phases of creative destruction, or kaikaku, none of them conclusive (Unlean).
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Regrettable Necessities, Relative Intelligence, Touch-Down.
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