"What is civilization?"

Civilization is people laying stones for a cathedral they'll never see finished. Patience, but make it architecture.

Wasn't the Roman civilization itself barbaric in the way it treated the people it subjugated?

Worth remembering perhaps that KC was filming this in May 1968 while student events happening, you can see tanks in background of some of the episodes.

Beautiful rivers and trees. Even these buildings built during freer times.

Built on colonial loot.

Civilization is just us forgetting we used to be wild. It’s the collective agreement to trade instinct for comfort, and I think we’re slowly waking up to the cost.