How to pronounce “civilization” in English

Also, very interesting and totally an aside, there was a paper that came out in "Science" last year that talked about a few choke points in humancivilization. I don't know if any of you saw this, but there were at least two or three points when they believethe human population was down to as little as 4,000 to 8,000 people, meaning we came really close to extinction many, many times over the last 250,000 years.

If we agree with Bonhoeffer, if we even partially agree with Bonhoeffer that stupidity is a greater danger to society than evil and we agree with Aristotle that a mafia is the greatest threat tocivilization, then how can we resolve that? What steps can we all take to remove stupidity from society? Well, I would argue that there are three things that we can do. There's a personal thingwe can do, there's an interpersonal thing, and there's a societal institutional thing we can do.

- Okay. So if there's no line, is it still useful to talk about things like the origin of life? That's the, the, one of the big open mysteries before us as a humancivilization, as scientifically minded curious homo sapiens. How did this whole thing start? Are you saying there is nostart? Is there a point where you could say that invention right there was the start of it all on Earth?

I'm here to communicate about the possibility of a major forgotten episode in human story. I'm talking about a lostcivilization. So, most people think civilization started 6,000 years ago?Yes. But you believe there's strong evidence that there could have been a previous civilization?

more than 300,000 years to establish something recognizable as a humancivilization? Why do we wait so long? We got all the kit. There's evidence that that our ancestors were aware ofagriculture, just chose not to use it much much much earlier than that. The complex of

apparently coincidental emergence of high civilizations in the same window all around the world. Indus ValleyCivilization, roughly the same, 5,000 years old. Yeah, we're looking at Caral here, I think. Yeah. Yeah.And these classic these The feature is these circular plazas in front of them and then the pyramid with her.

getting on. So, again, not an agricultural civilization at the at that time. They're a hunter-gatherercivilization. So, so archaeologists are having to confront a reversal of their model at the moment. And I think there'sroom in that reversal of the model for a forgotten episode in the human story.

The last quick story I wanted to tell you, just to wrap up in the last five minutes, is now looking at aspects of our psychology and cognitivecivilization. And many cultures around the world lived in much larger family groups with sort of wider kin, so grandparents living with their children

And I've been using my life the best I can to stop that because I think it's worth it.Civilization, with all its ills, is worth struggling to preserve.That motivated me. I think it should motivate all of us.

You might not see that therapist again.Civilization, this incredible design firm in Seattle who just won the Cooper Hewitt Award for design agency of the year--

You're sitting there in your chair.Civilization has made chairs something that we use very much.So get off the back of your chair.

had not been done before and that was going to be uh wherecivilization had replicated itself through all the

century after what when their Waterworks collaps so water is life but lack of water is lack of life or lack ofcivilization so it's a critical element for modern society and the other one is energy which gives us the quality oflife or wealth we like uh energy gives us clean water gives us productive industry it gives us mobility that's social Mobility energy gets us rich so

go to school were taught that uh uh in French and uh that is the language ofcivilization that's the road it's not just the most beautiful language Frenchbut it's the most elegant it's the only thing that will um will turn you into a

Therefore in summary, I'm sure you'll agree that I'm not exaggerating when I suggest what the humble sci-fi movie "Sharknado" has savedcivilization as we know it.Thank you for your time.

And then you're going around on it pretending like you're cutting off the outer layer of the globe.Civilization is doing that by itself, but we're going to do this well-- So all the way down,and I'm going to circle around, sometimes you miss a little nubbin on the bottom, but I nailed it.

And this probably has many answers, one of which is that Iran, as you said, is an oldcivilization. It's the one country that was overrun by the Arabs in -- when Islam spreadaround that part of the world that did not adopt Arabic as a language, that maintained its own language, maintained its own literature. And then about a thousand years into that

Civilization uses fire to take the base stuff that we dig out of the ground and transform it into the most useful substances

Civilization and its discontents give way to the irrational and half-seen.

Civilization spread from south to north, not the other way around.

Civilization hasn't changed the place much.' We go in search of wilderness, and so it is wilderness we find.

civilization. Now, you laugh.

civilization is really is really too great um you guys know as as as I do to

civilization they dragged him with him with them and at a rather poignant moment

civilization diddling and not doing anything and saying, Okay. "Hell with it. I want to experiment with this and try this." So, the question is, what do you do if you have an

civilization is because of beer ladies and gentlemen.

civilization in any kind of institutional coherent way it's often said that Plato and Socrates his master

civilization so in the you know your question was uh how how do I think

civilizational shifts of you know, in our consciousness and how we elect candidates and choose them and you know,

civilizations and histories and a lot more victories on success stories that traditionally believe. But I was always able to ground from a very young age slavery

Civilizations. So I hope you will enjoy the music.

civilizations rise and fall.

great warming climate change and the rise of fall of civilizations by Brian Fagan both talk about how Societycivilizations come up and then down and sometimes the trigger the collapses ecological strain the ecological strainis usually are often drought and there are a couple examples around the world three of the five multi-century Chinese dynasties the tang and Juan and Ming

Civilizations, maybe, don't last.

Civilizations had been trying for thousands of years to mechanically reproduce texts-- the Minoans, the Greeks, the Chinese.

civilizations, the new communication to organize agriculture was writing -- script.

civilizations, script allows us to extend the central nervous system, annihilate a little bit of time and space. Empathy extends beyond blood ties to associational

civilizations increase the entropy bill. More energy, more depletion of resources, a bigger footprint. Today, we live in the most interconnected,

civilizations that uh characterize history are families never restaurants.

human civilization, would you say? What were the things that were complicated to express and therefore were not expressed often?

Human civilization hangs in the balance.

whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't know what will happen, but it probably will." Um, and all a lot of the tweets

The civilization that we created is because of our intelligence.

a civilization still ruled in a bloodstained continent by sun priests, descendants of the Tayrona who literally believe that their prayers maintain

a civilization that lacked the written word, he or she had to remember every shift of the wind, every sign of the stars, the moon, the sun,

to civilization during the enslavement era, slaveholders were denying that their policies were racist, that their policies were the problem and were instead

Human civilization has quadrupled over the last 100 years.

of civilization. And there is Giambattista Vico in Italy in the 18th century, the historian Will Durant, early

Chinese civilization is thousands of years old.