One of our most fundamental cultural beliefs is this, that Civilization must continue at any cost and not be abandoned under any circumstance. Both these beliefs exemplify the cultural fallacy, which is the notion that one's beliefs are not merely expressions of one's culture but are intrinsic to the human mind itself. The effect of this fallacy is that it's almost impossible for the people of our culture to entertain the idea that there could be any invention beyond civilization.
Civilization is the end, the very last and unsurpassable human social development.
No one is surprised to learn that bees are organized in a way that works for them or that wolves are organized in a way that works for them. Most people understand in a general way that the social organization of any given species evolved in the same way as other features of the species. But there is an odd and unexamined prejudice against the idea that the very same process shaped the social organization of Homo over the three million years of his evolution. Civilization, in effect, represents an attempt to improve upon tribalism by replacing it with hierarchalism. Tribalism, by contrast, is nonhierarchical and benefits all members with notable equality.