M.M.’s Reviews > Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity > Status Update

"It also ignores a historically consistent and continually growing body of political and social analysis that points to a failure of modern societies to to fulfill an individual's basic human needs for Community identity"

"... natural (and man-made) disasters liberated surviving victims from an oppressive normalcy: ' the traditional contrast between "normal" and "disaster" almost always ignores or minimizes the recurrent stresses of everyday life and their personal and social effects."

I'm going to finish this today bc the library needs it back but the last few chapters describing how hunter gatherers live/d, how children are treated, how unlike them we are because for us "happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal" has really got me thinking. I wish I had the time to takes more notes.

"commonplace appraisal of modernity that is framed by a surprisingly uninformed depiction of precivilized human life and an apparent disregard for the costs of civilizational progress."

I get it, becoming a bit repetitive.