Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Wade Riddick <wriddick AT usa.net>]

> Good point. History was on Freud's side when he defined this death urge in Civilization and it's Discontents and history since has not exactly proven him wrong if the reports from Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur are to be compared to the two world wars.

Not to put a pin in anybody's bubble, but war claims a far smaller percentage of the civilian population now than it did ten thousand years ago - just 1500 years ago in some parts of the Americas.  If modern civilization has a destructive urge, it's certainly not as great it was for the "uncivilized."