MANKIND, CIVILIZATION, CULTURE, SOCIETY, FAMILY, INDIVIDUAL Been trying to work

MANKIND, CIVILIZATION, CULTURE, SOCIETY, FAMILY, INDIVIDUAL

Been trying to work on constructing Propertarian definitions for these terms. Ran across this gem, that is very, very close.

—“Civilization is fundamentally a cultural infrastructure of information and knowledge that serves survival and continuity. What distinguishes a civilization from a culture is that this infrastructure, having reached a critical level of complexity, becomes autonomous from constituent cities, nations, and empires. In ordinary cultures, the passing of information and knowledge may depend upon imitation or oral communication; in civilizations, this cultural memory, etched into clay or drawn into papyrus, takes on a life of its own”— (Andrew Bosworth, “The Genetics of Civilization: An Empirical Classification of Civilizations Based on Writing Systems, Comparative Civilizations Review, 2003, 49:9).