Civilized: Having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

Savage: Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others
Violently unfriendly or aggressive in disposition
Synonyms: barbarous, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild,coarse, crude, rough; uncouth, uncultured
Antonyms: cultured, enlightened, humane, genteel, polite

According to Merriam-Webster being civilized or a civilized society is having or showing a taste for the “fine arts and gracious living”. Savage is defined as having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.

To truly define “civilized” we should look at the measure of one’s compassion, meekness, humility, empathy, forgiveness and altruism. Being truly civilized or a civilized Society should be gauged by:

1. Each person treating themselves and others in all ways as the truly unique and precious components to all life that each person is – and extending that to everyone and everything outside of them.
2. Having the utmost of respect, care, protection and admiration for the weakest – the young and the old, for together they are the vision of the future.
3. Seeking and achieving balance and symbiosis with all that exists inside and outside of every individual.
4. Being in the consistent nature of all things and maintaining the primordial rhythm of Life

Are you Civilized or Savage?

Do you live and participate in a Civilized Society or a Savage Society?