Is It Meaningful to Consider One Place More Civilized Than Another?

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Is it meaningful to consider one place more civilized than another? And should we care about more civilized places? i was just thinking about, you know, in some utube rabbit hole about a western music theory. It's really easy for me to think impulsively that, of course, there are some places that are more civilized than others.

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