The enemies use a variety of methods to destroy nation civilizations, but I think all these methods are concentrated in three ways to destroy a civilization:
1) Destruction the family: You must disappear the role of the mother, by making her ashamed of herself, through describe her job as a housewife.
2) Destruction the education: Do not make an importance to the teacher in the society and reduce his status to despise by his students.
3) Dropping the Role Models (Good examples): Stabbed scientists and thinkers, doubt and belittle from opinions of them so that no one would listen to them.
If the conscious mother disappears, the faithful teacher disappears and the role model for young men and boys falls, who he will raise the new youth to good values?
What is your opinion?
Dear Qasin Hussein,
I cannot but aggre with your idea about the methods that are used to destroy the civilizations of nations: Destruction of the family, destruction of education, and overlooking of good models or, say, moral/ethical examplars. As I see it, family is, as it were, the prime pillar of any country or society. Education is so important to the civilizations of nations that only education can save countries, societies, and even individuals from possible collapse, be it violent or gradual. And good models or moral examplars are, say, a kind of light to young generations. As you righty ask: If the conscious parents, namely the mother, disappear, the faithful teacher vanishes, and the role model for young girls and boys falls, who will raise the new youth to good values, such as the true, the good, and the beautiful? Note that the true, the good, and the beautiful are universal categories, regardless of how they are seen in different times and places. In addition to your three key issues having to do with the destruction of nations' civilizations, I would add the following three: War, injustice and corruption. As I, and certainly you, see it, war, injustice and corruption have detrimental effects on nations' ciilization and on their, say, sustainable development. Actually, when war, injustice, and corruption are the case, destruction of the family, education, and good models are also at risk.
Of course, we could make this list a longer list. Even so, the above mentioned six parameters are not but terrible methods or factors to destroy the civilizations of nations.
I hope I has got your post and that this helps.
Best regards
Orlando
I agree about you say Prof. Qasim Mohammed Hussein.
I share with you attached picture (acording to M. Mehdi El Manjra).
Best regards
M. Ouhsaine Morocco
Yes, dear Prof. Hussein, a progressive degradation ending with a total disappearance of high moral standards. Awakening in a high degree is required before it is too late.
Regards
Dear @Qasim, I do agree with your approach to the civilizations' destruction methods. I would add destruction of moral, ethics and integrity as an important issue to this list. Corruption is cancer of society which destroy civilizations...
A perfect analysis of the causative elements destroying our societies! Aside the brilliant points offered by you and dear colleagues, I will add the deliberate attempt of sidelining the great and helpful pinnacles of moral ethics in the cultural values of communities in education and other essential fields of human development. The inhuman and merciless stripping of the moral fibres of societies are destroying our societies. The future drivers - the youth in the society may be tainted and corrupt, which may culminate into the destruction of global societies.
I wrote out the key phrases:
Qasim Mohammed Hussein: "Destruction the family, Destruction the education, Dropping the Role Models (Good examples)"
Orlando M Lourenço: "War, injustice and corruption"
Aristidis Matsoukis: "a progressive degradation ending with a total disappearance of high moral standards"
Ljubomir Jacić: "destruction of moral, ethics and integrity"
I fully agree with these phrases. Now we need to determine the exact address of those individuals who bear the primary responsibility for these disgusting phenomena. Until we name these individuals, we will only shake the air. We must clearly understand for ourselves, with whom we must fight. However, if our goal is to save mankind from an imminent catastrophe, let's take active steps to counteract these phenomena. What could we do?
I can feel you and I know what you would like to share. Therefore, I totally agree with you dear Qasim. Destroying a civilization begins with a family and it goes on to cover education and the role models. These factors are totally enough to destroy not only a civilization but also the whole world. As Billy Graham said "When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates". The starting point begins with a family.
family is the base of the society. if the family was good , the society will be good.
To squash ideas, crippling innovative thoughts. I think here you are concerned with more conservative societies in which the family has tremendous and perhaps unwarranted importance. Each society or culture needs, especially in the present world, to handle change and also acquire a view of relationships beyond traditional family units, for example. Here, you appear to have certain ideas about what civilisation is, but if thinking is rigid, or too rigid, amongst the members of any society than that society has elements of fragility and will only continue by itself destroying what is valuable.
Civilization approach , with all the human beings in the entire world is absolutely essential .For which it may start with the root of family ,the education institute ,social & religious organization & contribution of political environment so play their respective part .
With this I have also express my views in my Publication of article under the name '' Human Civilization '' which I submit herewith for your perusal & also valued readers for their opinion if any .
This is my personal opinion
Many civilizations have been destroyed in many countries and we never agree
I agree that these three strategies are used to destroy civilizations, but it seems that they're clearly not the only three. An all-out genocide will destroy a civilization without appeal to any of these strategies.
A few well-placed nuclear bombs would do it more quickly, at least for the civilization of a smaller nation-state and maybe even a middle-sized nation-state if something regarded as intrinsic to their self-concept was targeted. Or the deliberate introduction of certain diseases (cf. the effect on New World civilizations by the accidental introduction of non-native diseases) . Whose civilization are you concerned about? And what exactly do you mean by civilization? Civilization can be construed broadly (Western civilization, Eastern civilization) or narrowly (Mayan civilization, Icelandic civilization); the role of the family might also be rendered quite different from what it is without destroying what is essential to a specific civilization. (Note that some cultures do in fact regard something like the degraded role of women you describe as essential to their way of life.)
In many countries what we in the West regard as positive aspects of Western civilization is a thin veneer superimposed on a traditional culture that is authoritarian, patriarchal, theocratic, undemocratic, etc. and they regard their civilization as threatened by Western civilization. They would simply regard your methods (2) and (3) as counteracting the degradation of their civilization. This looks like a clash between civilizations.
As @Karl has mentioned the clash of civilization, let us speak about the influence of culture and religion.
The Clash of Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations
People's, groups-nations, etc are modifying as is to be expected within globalisation. The process usually takes place on the perifery, where habits are transmitted, and similarities are formed. Over time the transformation that then occurs is forgotten about as things 'have always been that way'. An injunction common after cultural change.
Those in the centre nevertheless will hold onto beliefs, traditions, etc with ferocity until economic conditions (usually) effect change. The connection between traditional societies and poverty has often been noted, but only comes into the forefront when subjected to comparison and contrast.
The three points you have mentioned are only the obvious ones.
Good has only one face. Evil has many and that is why it prevails,
Thanks.
sir, i am agreed that civilisations are corroding not slowly but at a fast pace, the media is the main factor in this high paced destruction process.... all the civilisations despite of their rich heritage and culture, are blindly following western life style without research.... scientific thinking is ignored today.... We are just followers and the thinking process, The Questions of WHY, WHAT and HOW are ignored .... In such type of so called PROGRESS we are POLLUTING our SOCIETY, CULTURE, HERITAGE and ENVIRONMENT at a large extent....
Dear Qasim Mohammed Hussein,
I am not sure about the methods you mention, but the lack of awe and respect for life itself and what is behind it, it probably the biggest factor in the degeneration of society we see today.
Warm regards Tins
Do you agree with me about the methods that is used to destroy the civilizations of nations?
Agreed these are the 3 important foundational micro-external factors. There can be other macro factors like national collective effort to promote / maintain its own cultural values, national identity, laws to forbid ethnic cleansing, campaigns to promote peace etc.
Also internal factors that might influence a person beside the above 3 external factors (parent, teacher, role model) like the individual person's value system, ethicality / moral philosophy, religious belief system etc. that might influence the person how s/he perceive, promote or plan to destroy civilizations of a nation. The personal value system can be very dynamic because it can change from time to time, condition to condition, changed across different stages of life albeit strongly influenced by parent, teacher or role model in the initial stage of life.
Dear Prof. Qasim Mohammed Hussein, your question is one the best in recent time. The highlighted points in your question are killing our society in real fact; women are relegated to play a role of full house wife in larger part of the world and I don't thing any serious minded person with a big heart for financial prosperity will take on teaching job. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be thinking and ready to do anything about this.
Dear Prof. Qasim Mohammed Hussein, your question is one the best in recent time. The highlighted points in your question are killing our society in real fact; women are relegated to play a role of full house wife in larger part of the world and I don't thing any serious minded person with a big heart for financial prosperity will take on teaching job. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be thinking and ready to do anything about this.
Yes, degradation in family, education and moral values always leads to destruction of the civilization of a nation.
Education, educated mother, good teachers and persons plays a significant role in the building of a nation by preparing good youths.
Dear Dr. Qasim Mohammed Hussein,
Yes, I agree. In my studies of the reasons for decline of numerous ancient civilizations, I see the same parallels (symptoms) throughout history, as you have identified ... and as so-succinctly summarized by Mahesh Kumar above: "... degradation in family, education and moral values always leads to destruction of the civilization" ...
My regards,
Bob Skiles
PS - but as Ales Kralj cogently reminds us (below), these are not reasons (causes), but only the symptoms of the underlying evolutionary cause(s)
Yes, all this is absolutely true. But why? You try only to record the facts, but we need to specify the reason. In my opinion, the main reason is Globalization, which destroys the identity of nations, education, culture, and science. But it erases the differences between a man and a woman, introduces juvenile justice, sex education in schools and other abominations that I do not want to mention. Why is this done and who is doing it? I think this is a conscious policy of degrading people's brains to create an unthinking electorate instead of reasonable people. Why? Because stupid people are very convenient for any manipulation. A stupid person will never ask uncomfortable questions and will always trust the authorities around and everywhere. What to do? It is need to live a double morality: one morality for society, so as not to stand out and say what they would want to hear from you, and another moral for yourself and do the right thing. Otherwise, apparently it does not work out. Here is a wonderful example from Academician V.I Arnold “Trip to Chaos “ http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/5174/ (Russian) how it should be done:
American scientists generally are emigrants from Europe , but post graduate student are mostly Chinese and Japanese.
- Nevertheless, you can't deny achievements of the American science?
- I am not doing a review of the condition of American science or the American way of living.
Am talking about the teaching methods that are deployed in primary schools of the US, the situation there is disgraceful. I have discussed this issue with the outstanding mathematicians of America; most of them are my friends. I am proud of their achievements, however, I asked them this question; How did you manage to have these achievements in science with such poor primary schools?
One of them answered:” I earlier learned “double thinking “ that is, I had one understanding of a subject itself, and another - for the administration at school.
My teacher demanded that I answered him that 2 multiply by 3 equals 8 , but I knew that it is 6…I knew well that it is necessary to answer at lessons and that’s how it is actually... I worked a lot in libraries, it’s good that were excellent books”.
Resume: we need to adapt and develop a double thinking: we need to answer "2 multiply by 3 equals 8" for society and simultaneously think in one's head "2 multiply by 3 equals 6" for yourself.
If you want to destroy nation and/or state, just destroy the educational system. The result is guaranteed.
I agree with Prof. Ljubomir, education is the most powerful weapon that could be used in destroying the world. Most of the colonial masters used it in spotlighting Western culture, religion and lifestyle to most of the less privileged members in developing countries especially. Infact, this weapon has sadly and wrongly painted the cultural traditions of a particular group unattractive, satanic and idolatrous.
Here e.g. today's information from https://lenta.ru/news/2018/08/18/pozooorniki/ August 18, 2018
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, commented on the "shameful" results of the school final exam in mathematics, he wrote on his Facebook.
"Frankly speaking, I want to sound an alarm. This is a total disaster! Forty-eight percent of applicants could not solve the task of level eighth grade. Every second of today's graduates is not guided in elementary mathematical rules! "- complained the minister.
According to Klimkin, without changing the approach to teaching and stimulating youth, Ukraine risks "to be nowhere." He noted that "education is the path to a successful future," and, turning off from it, the country condemns itself to the "periphery of life."
The Ukrainian minister added that the unsatisfactory state of affairs concerns not only mathematics, but also English, history, geography, and, what is striking, the Ukrainian language. "Think about it!" And nobody notices this! You are not shocked? "- concluded Klimkin.
My opinion is that I do not agree with the way to explain this matter. For me, it is very fundamentalist and I reject everything fundamentalist. We can not believe we are owners of the truth. This is a free forum, for researchers, this is my opinion. I do not share his crtiterio, nor are there enemies. The absurd is in the mind of some reasoning. Sorry, and, I'm not sorry if someone is offended
Dear Colleagues,
I do not think that any nation or empire aims at destroying itself. But they have all fallen in the past. I feel this might come about through a certain degree of "decadent living" such as the Roman Empire. This can be seen as happening when people's values break down and where all life including nature (which includes us) is not respected.
Warm regards - Tina
In addition to the three ways i.e, Destruction of the family, Destruction the of education and Dropping the Role Models as rightly mentioned by Prof. Qasim, I think destruction of culture and character of citizens may also destroy the civilizations of nations.
A nation is destroyed only if its citizens permit it. Time to resist such memes and to refuse to be destroyed. The choice is yours
As someone has said : "Corruption is the cancer of society". If you do not threat this disease at every level, in many forms, if you do not make an integrity network to fight corruption, then your society has no bright future.
How to Bring Down a Nation
In any country, there are but a few key areas that determine how the citizens mature, live, and develop their beliefs. ........attack and control the mind of the inhabitants—you must shape the way people view life and the values upon which their life is based. Shape the mind and you control their direction. Control their direction and you can lead them down a pathway to hell.
https://www.news24.com/MyNews24/How-to-Bring-Down-a-Nation-20150420
But, to avoid the destruction of a state/nation, it's important to prevent the destruction of the character, of the common sense and of the people with strong moral values and principes!
Dear Qasim Mohammed Hussein
My work and research is now turning into the role of myth in bringing down not Nations (but probably this is really the heart in how it is done - scientific theory is also a kind of myth!) but different ways of knowing. Myth was used in Ancient Greece to bring down the Female Principle and intuitive way of knowing and I argue we are still under this myth today - Science is based on The Masculine Principle in spite of some of the greats like Einstein openly admitted to using it and claiming that it is the first necessary prerequisite:
"Einstein, speaking from personal experience, maintained that in science, creative insight is the first step, which can then be followed by logical and mathematical expression. "All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge. I believe in intuition and inspiration.... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason" (Einstein in Root-Bernstein & Root- Bernstein, 2010, para. 4)( in Lindhard - INSIGHTS CONCERNING INTUITION, THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE AND INTUITIVE AWARENESS - in press)
If anybody is interested, my first paper in this new series of research articles concerning the connection between myth and the depreciation of intuition is
Article When a Virgin is not a Virgin
and I have just uploaded another one
Chapter EDUCATION, THE DEPRECIATION OF THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE AND INTU...
Yes I fully agree with but you forgot to mention an other reasons
1) Uneducated people
2) Lack of citizenship among people
3) No one undertake the responsibility to hold on his or her shoulder to maintain the civilization and no one inform the people the necessity of belonging to their civilization
Nationalism is very destructive! Yugoslavia was destroyed because of different nationalism. After war, we have got 6 countries instead of one great. :(
It is very fair!! I fully agree with your thoughts on the methods used to destroy nation civilizations. Thank you dear Hussein
No one will dare to destroy your country unless it is allowed by those inside the country as well as civilization
“If our civilisation doesn’t persist, for whatever reason… it is possible that whoever presses that button eliminates meaning in a galaxy for ever.”
Considering how rare complex, intelligent life might be, the end of civilization on Earth could imply the death of meaning in our galaxy, muses physicist Brian Cox...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/19/earths-demise-could-rid-galaxy-of-meaning-warns-brian-cox-ahead-of-cop26
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