<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The civilized world is not evidence that the beast... > {{The civilized world is not evidence that the beast departed. The civilized world is an enormous containment protocol built by beasts who learned enough about one another to become permanently afraid.}} {{We place rules around sex, ownership, children, property, anger, revenge, borders, inheritance, weapons and power because these are exactly the places where appetite collides with appetite and the smiling organism suddenly remembers its teeth.}} {{Civilization is not the absence of the animal. Civilization is the animal's own assessment of what it is capable of, poured into concrete.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The civilized world is not evidence that the beast departed. The civilized world is an enormous containment protocol built by beasts who learned enough about one another to become permanently afraid. We place rules around sex, ownership, children, property, anger, revenge, borders, inheritance, weapons and power because these are exactly the places where appetite collides with appetite and the smiling organism suddenly remembers its teeth. Civilization is not the absence of the animal. Civilization is the animal's own assessment of what it is capable of, poured into concrete.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-civilized-world-evidence-capable-poured-concrete ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->