### social society:

Civilization
* All civilizations have their own features in the long course of development
  - traditions of using herbs to promote healing
  - up to now been based on private ownership of the means of production
* All civilizations use different means of communication
  - the materials in their building construction which are the most prevalent
* Every civilization declines and dies, like western civilization is declining and dying today
  - has records documenting pain and painful experiences
  - memorializes death in some form
  - records important ideas and events in the arts
* Most civilizations develop technology
  - transmission technology
  - eat diets
  - have legends
* Some civilizations are better early-age civilizations
  - build spheres
  - have roots
  - know gods
* Some civilizations lead to destruction
  - environmental destruction
* Some civilizations use marble
  - starlights
* are societal entities that experience life cycles.
* come and go and sometimes they leave behind their technology for others to find.
* complex, urban society whose records are kept in writing.
* consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants
  - of social and technological organization that rids our lives of information
* culturally defined sophistication and complexity that is achieved in social life.
* decline when their moral core deteriorates.
* depends on the strength of families.
* develop a sense of self-identity
* die as men die, by accident then.
* do grow old and do get tired.
* evolves, just like the life that creates it.
* exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.
* expand or decay.
* fall when the family structure falls.
* form where the rivers meet.
* has states, just as matter does
  - the potential to become indestructible and eternal
* history of substituting things for effort.
* is about the family as the central institution
  - also separation from an original wholeness and grace
  - another word for respect for life
  - built on accident, illusion, and mystery
  - dependent on sturdy buildings for homes, industry , and schools
  - different from modernism
  - measured by how people treat each other
  - social processes
* is the arteriosclerosis of culture
  - common product of all peoples
  - end , the very last and unsurpassable human social development
  - gift of Prosperity
* is the process of setting a man free from men
  - men free from men
  - reaction of humanity to the purpose of any particular world period
  - reduction of everything to the common denominator of the dollar
  - video games
* lead to social structure and migration internally to a society by occupation.
* leave marks on the earth by which they are known and judged.
* limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
* means mutual coexistence and it begins with the family unit
  - to be civil, peaceful around others and to play the role of economy and politics
* method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people
  - living, an attitude of equal respect for all men
* move toward complexity before they perish.
* net, cast in the sea of humanity, yielding ideas, arts, sciences and progress.
* often imposes a measure of suffering, as does being part of nature
  - springs From obsession with way-out things
* process that overcomes morality, rather than instilling it.
* requires a large brain and a large body to carry it around.
* rise and fall.
* run on energy.
* social invention.
* succession of such periods of death and resurrection.
* survives and improves as lessons of history are passed from one generation to the next.
* take hundreds of thousands of years to develop
  - lots of bullets and walk dead for a long time before they fall
* treacherous, and often misused term.
* usually means urbanization.

### social society | civilization:

American civilization
* comes from the middle class.
* way of being.