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Civilization is the process of externalizing our individual needs to others.

We externalize our information to books. We externalize our jobs to specialists. We externalize our shelter to home builders. We externalize our food to farmers. We externalize our water to manucipalities.

Individually we may be weaker because of it. Yet in the end we are all stronger, and now billions of us can live at levels unimaginable in the past.



  We're not concerned with the community aloofness
  Duke, we're animals, we just go where the most food is
  Lower the toast, most formal etiquette is useless
  Truth is you're equally expendable as spoon-fed




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