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barbarize
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Like in every other place, colonization is the ultimate barbarization.
31) Lewis Mumford draws upon Calhoun in a way that was increasingly common in the 1960s and 70s: No small part of this ugly urban barbarization has been due to sheer physical congestion: a diagnosis now partly confirmed by scientific experiments with rats--for when they are placed in equally congested quarters, they exhibit the same symptoms of stress, alienation, hostility, sexual perversion, parental incompetence, and rabid violence that we now find in Megalopolis.
Finally, torture is addressed as a specific form of barbarism, including barbarization of the criminal justice system.
 
 
 
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