pre-civilized

Even today, we carry with us attitudes, feelings and longings from pre-modern and even pre-civilized days.

Philipp Blom, Author of The Vertigo Years | Edwardian Promenade 2008

Likewise, with respect to the role of warfare/violence among pre-civilized societies.

THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES After a Quarter Century: A Revision 2009

The monster is a fish-goddess named Brunhilde, who is being held prisoner by her father Fujimoto, who is the estranged husband of the goddess of the sea, and goes around in his submarine from where he pours his magic elixirs into the sea and creates more in order to so something horrible that it will destroy humanity and bring the world back into it's pre-civilized balance.

Eric Lurio: Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo on the Cliff:" A Huffington Post Review 2009

There's been one area that's been troubling, where the new information coming in has been at variance to what I was getting from the literature during the 1970s: it's about the question of how much bellicosity there was before the rise of civilization, both in our pre-civilized (hunting-and-gathering) ancestry and among our closest primate relatives.

THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES After a Quarter Century: A Revision 2009

What would be affected by a more war-like image of pre-civilized humans is our view of the EXTENT to which we would see this selection for power as having WARPED human beings into a shape contrary to our inborn nature.

THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES After a Quarter Century: A Revision 2009

I don't think we'll really heal our culture and our planet unless we re-visit pre-civilized cultures and find some of the ingredients that were left behind in the first pass, as civilization evolved as a slave supported, power/hierarchy money driven way of living.

Sicko Delivers Politically, Emotionally, Entertainmentwise. 2007

I don't think we'll really heal our culture and our planet unless we re-visit pre-civilized cultures and find some of the ingredients that were left behind in the first pass, as civilization evolved as a slave supported, power/hierarchy money driven way of living.

Printing: Sicko Delivers Politically, Emotionally, Entertainmentwise. 2007

I don't think we'll really heal our culture and our planet unless we re-visit pre-civilized cultures and find some of the ingredients that were left behind in the first pass, as civilization evolved as a slave supported, power/hierarchy money driven way of living.

Sicko Delivers Politically, Emotionally, Entertainmentwise. 2007

If the Commander Copiece Decideration takes the cradle of civilization and returns it to a pre-civilized war of all against all, how does that affect his legacy?

Firedoglake » So Much for the Pre-Election Troop Withdrawal? 2006

She begins with a quote from a review of Nicholas Wade's Before the Dawn, which explains in great detail exactly how uncivilized the pre-civilized world really was.

The Speculist: The Friendliness Problem 2006