The chain of civilization has come full circle, the cradle of civilization robbed by the great-to-the-N grandchild of the original patriarch, generational abuse the story of the city, all cities as one, all the same.
The bastard children of Mohammed, Europe and America, hove come back home to Babylon, bringing it all back home again, the New Babylon on the crumbling foundations of the old.
The original law incised in clay only spells out the difference between free and slave, noble and common, king and noble, indelibly defining who has the full protection of law, and who does not. Hammurabi is the original apologist of The State.
There is only one Civilization. This is not to say there is only one modern way of life. This is to say only that all cities are the same. The real unit of modern life is the town. Towns are self-sustaining, renewable, sustainable communities. Cities are parasitical entities that cannot provide for themselves. Without colonial relationships, without armies of soldiers and merchants, cites cannot survive.
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