Progressive

There are many ways to define “Civilization”. You could start with the plow and clay pots, working your way forward. Another option is to reference cultural icons and storytelling, if you want to take a literary approach. I, however, prefer to focus on the basic concepts of law and justice.

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Credentials

By education, I am not a writer. The nice piece of paper says “Chemical Engineering” on it.

I don’t consider this to be a problem, however. I taught myself to be a writer largely by watching the world around me and gently crumbling it up onto a piece of paper with scribblings in English. Teaching myself to edit was a more difficult problem, since it took re-reading my own stuff and not recoiling in horror at the mistakes. But I did it.

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