decivilization

In fact, it has become the hallmark of Arab/Islamic decivilization, dysfunction and deterioration; and which is psychologically inevitable when a group resorts to paranoia and psychological projection to defend against reality.

Archive 2009-01-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

There is also decivilization by erosion, and while it's going on, nobody notices it.

Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

Miller's riding whip; but the completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his ability to flee from the defense of a moral consideration and so save his hide.

Chapter 2 1903

What the decline did involve everywhere was decivilization; the loss of letters, of laws, of roads and means of communication, the exaggeration of local colour into caprice.

A Short History of England 1905

But on the edges of the Empire this decivilization became a definite barbarism, owing to the nearness of wild neighbours who were ready to destroy as deafly and blindly as things are destroyed by fire.

A Short History of England 1905

Civilized, he could have died for a moral consideration, say the defense of Judge Miller's riding whip; but the completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his ability to flee from the defense of a moral consideration and so save his hide.

Chapter 2, The Law of Club and Fang 1903

Civilized, he could have died for a moral consideration, say the defence of Judge Miller's riding-whip; but the completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his ability to flee from the defence of a moral consideration and so save his hide.

The Call of the Wild Jack London 1896

Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid.

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

These vast forces are purely constabular -- creatures and creators of discontent -- phenomena of decivilization.

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

Greenland hyenas disdainfully sniff me I am not in the desert! the air pauses I hear the grating of poles on their axles the air drones I impotently attend the decivilization of my mind the air brings me the Zambezi

Bookslut 2009