neither/nor


civilized with or without their permission, at the end of a bayonet, even to the point when there were none of them left to civilize.


It did not entirely escape notice, even among certain of the more observant Europeans, that this manner of spreading civilization was something less than civilized. Between the end of the Spanish Reconquista with the Fall of Granada in 1492 and the rout of the Turks in the 1683 Battle of Vienna, the European powers had succeeded once and for all in shoring their borders against invasion, and in the following moment of understandable bumptious self-confidence, as the martial success of guns,


mondo cinema and beyond 1960s — 1980s


germs, and steel abroad seemed to confirm their sense of being fortune-favored above the benighted savages, the Western powers conferred the mantle of civilization upon themselves. In 1905, Dr. Albert Schweitzer


SHOCKING IMAGERY!


“our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title bestowed on the persons who do the classifying; and others, who have only the human form, who may perish or go to the dogs for all the ‘civilized men’ care.”


—dr. Albert Schweitzer


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