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Advancing Civilisation
Sopanna Hong

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“Civilisation erodes due to the reason that it is unable to comprehend itself. Wars break out, a Holocaust occurs and civilisation crumbles due to the fact that people are unable to not only understand the world they live in, but also, each other. Every single writer in history, whether it be the Greek tragedians — Euripides, Sophocles or Aeschylus, or William Shakespeare, or a corporal writing in his journal …”