What if humans ceased to be civilized and became barbaric?

Question

What if humans ceased to be civilized and became barbaric? How would that change our waves of life????

..this is a question for school. i'm just getting some broad ideas from other people. I'm not bashing anyone's culture or whatever.. just a straight-up question. what your reading, is what i'm asking..

Answer 1

Humans were civilized?

Answer 2

I feel compelled to answer this question. I don;t know why, my answer will probably get lost amongst the synically pessimistic and suspicioulsy sensitive people who have answered. Humanity is what it is. Since the beggining of time, people have slaughtered each other for this reason or that.

PETA..considers all those who eat meat uncivilized, barbarians.

Most of the citizens of the united states consider other nations to be full of barbarians.

But, we as a whole...meaning humanity as a whole, well, yes we lean more toward being civil..than being barbaric.

Life is what it is, and in life things will happen, decisions will be made that effect other people in a negative way, and of course there will be down right inhumane human beings. But that does not describe us as a whole.

To answer your question, if we were to invert life as it is now and make the majority of human beings barbaric by definition of the term in todays use, than I believe we would kill each other off almost as cataclysmicly as the meteor showers and the changes on the earth did to the dinosaurs. If there were suddenly no laws, and if there were no more boundries, and if everyone was out for self, and the love of life was suddenly no more...than life for most people would be over. Now just has the majority of people still have the tendency to be good people, and the minority are the people who are just evil, if things were to be inverted and the good were suddenly the minority...they would have to fight really hard to thrive and survive but most likely it would just be impossible.

I am not religious in the least, but I think that right now, that the power of good people is the prevailing one. Things are ugly out there, without a doubt...but the beauty in the world and in the people of the world keep that uglyness from becoming a more bigger, badder motherf***er than it already is!!

Answer 3

In order to better answer your question please supply what you consider as civilized and barbaric, or more appropriately civilized and uncivilized.

For instance, the USA considers itself a civilized nation, if not the apex of civilization. Its technological and scientific advancement is second to none. At the same time its elementary and secondary schools are on par with nonindustrialized nations. It is possibly the only place in the world where children kill children for sport; adults kill adults for sport; authoritarian control trumps self-control thereby sacrificing liberty, even though they claim to charish liberty; citizens care about symbols than the substance of the documents and are subject to be lead by "talking heads"
who give them their next idea; the elderly, young, are thrown away in elderly homes, daycare; the Social advancement is not in step with the technological advancement; the innocent are set upon and soon forgotten (remember there were 3 attacks at schools by christian american citizens on christian american citizens); many employment situations are not much different than the slavery or fuedal system; the USA is the only nation to drop and atomic weapon twice on a civilian population; it imprisons by percentage more people than any other country, it was number 2 behind South Africa until the government changed; the idea of an apology for past wrongs is "get over it, that was the past"; safety restraints are on a variety of products to prevent poisoning by other USAmericans; the system encourages poverty, homelessness, crime, drug addiction, to make social services a multibillion dollar industry; more serial killings than any other nation including war. This is the civilized nation. Loneliness and despair are the emotional states that are neck and neck with the arrognce of ignorance in this civilized nation. Phonyness is the camoflage that gets them through day by day pass the misinformation.

The word Barbaric is a term that intitially referred to those who in habited the Barbary Coast. Much like Vandalism initially referred to the nation tribe of Europe known as Vandals. So the reference to the word Barbaric is in itself an Ethnic referrence, based on years of ethnocentisim of the donminant culture.

Answer 4

You mean like the Iraqi's. Cutting off someones head can only be considered Barbaric. In the Thirties, someone wrote a book called " ARE WE CIVILIZED" We weren't then and we aren't now. No one can call the waging of War Civilized, now can then. Check out the Wars we had and are still having. Civilized people would not be making war against their own kind.

Answer 5

It has happened many times before. Civilizations rise and fall. There is evidence that some groups living today in primitive manner may be descended from people who were more highly civilized. This may have happened because their economy collapsed or they were pushed out of their homeland by more aggressive peoples. When people lose one way of life they either adapt and learn to live with what they have left or they die out.

Answer 6

Hi. compared to what? We (USA) are the only nation to actually use nuclear weapons in battle. (Repeat, in battle!) Does that make us barbaric? Or civilized? No. It means we will use any weapon needed to defend ourselves, as will any other sovereign nation. Will it change our way of life? No. We (humans) have always been this way, defending ourselves against any enemy, whether human, beast, or nature.

Answer 7

Like Hezbolla

Answer 8

i'm uncertain you may say it made us "civilized." it could have performed a component in our obedience to government and such, nevertheless . . . yet i'm no longer likely specific. Civilizations started probably while agriculture started. while human beings could finally settle in one place and not could shop on with recreation around. As to the politics of those civilizations, like I suggested, i'm no longer precisely specific. faith isn't mandatory, i do no longer think of. various tribal human beings tend to revere their elders, as they are "wiser" and such. So, it may've began that way. Or it may've been a extra "alpha male" variety deal, the place the guy who contributes the main to the society is deemed the "chief" and such.

Answer 9

You're being incredibly ethnocentric and self-absorbed about this. Who's to say that to another culture, maybe one not quite as technologically advaned, we are the barbarians for being so out of touch with our surroundings? Its impossible to define the word "barbarian" without being ignorant about the ways of life of other people.

Answer 10

Humanity IS barbaric. All we've managed to do is refine our barbarism with more and more complex weapons of destruction.