Civilization

From the viewpoint of humanity, or even one human, 'civilization' is the crown of creation. There is no such thing, in thought or speech or reality, as 'civilization' for only one man, or even a couple of men, or even a small group of men.

'Civilization' becomes a word, concept, form-of-reality, only in the midst of much larger groups of humans, and then the definition of that word, 'civilization', evolves and evolves in much the same way that ordinary life-forms on planet earth evolve. Survival of the fittest, strongest, meanest, baddest, hungriest, and most powerful, and the overarching will to live, to survive, is literally hard-wired into the DNA of all life-forms.

From the viewpoint of humanity, physical evolution on planet earth has culminated, so far, with the invention/creation of Civilization (both as a word, and as a reality).

Now, from the viewpoint of that same civilization of humanity on earth, what is evolving, is Civilization It Self.

Life on Earth, has evolved into, believe it or not, Civilization.

Now, there are 4 Forms of Civilization, which can only be extrapolated from the information presented above, because as such a form, we, our civilization, are still only at Form 0 - that is, we are more like a New Born, than as an Adult (Form 3).