The nation state and civilisation Just one of the absurdities that characterises our "civilisation". If a stray dog crossed a border and was sheltered, given food and water by a caring American, it would have received a million+ likes on facebook.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51