Whatever you think or say, don’t tell me that Israel or the United States represent a “civilization” I’m obliged to respect. If the video below shows us the price of “civilization,” then civilization is morally indistinguishable from “savagery”—just more expensive, more comfortable, and more effective at mass extermination.

Civilization can only be distinguished from savagery when it forswears the methods of savagery. Unfortunately, our civilization thrives on the dogma that it’s too exalted a thing to incur such an obligation. The result is a “civilization” that claims to take its bearings from Mt Olympus or Mt Sinai, but ends up wallowing in the sewer. Not a pretty sight. But don’t look away.