A civilized people may be defined as a group of persons tied together by a common ethical code who systematically predict and control their collective ability to predict and control. The essential difference between civilized and uncivilized people is that among the latter there is no systematic group effort by its members to create machines for the benefit of the group as a whole, machines which require several persons to operate and which may not …showed first 75 words of 928 total…

…showed last 75 words of 928 total…are started to provided safety, but that they deprive us of sex and violence (and thus presumably happiness) by creating superegos which threaten us with bad feelings (e.g. guilt). Freud says that this means that too much civilization might not be worth it, and seems to hope that we can invent a society that give both safety and satisfaction to the desires of the id, but he thinks that this is unlikely ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**