Civilization Is A Disease
Civilization Is A Disease
âCivilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.â George Bernard Shaw placed that line in âMaxims for Revolutionistsâ, appended to Man and Superman, and the sentence still shocks because it does not merely criticise modernity; it pathologises it. Shaw, a leading Fabian and public intellectual, belonged to a reformist socialist milieu that believed society could be engineered gradually and rationally from above. Yet that same rationalist confidence often shaded into something darker: population management, elite planning, and the fantasy that humanity itself could be improved by sorting, disciplining, breeding, excluding, and sometimes eliminating the âunfitâ. Shawâs line can therefore be read not only as a critique of civilization, but as an unwitting confession about one of civilizationâs recurring diseases: the educated eliteâs urge to redesign humanity. ([online-literature.com][1])
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