One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that is it is the opposite of primitiveness.… primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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