The world, the real one, was civilization secured and ruled by savage means.
Only? I get the contrast Coates is describing here, but can't we have non-violence and a savage civilization, with reality bouncing between these?
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either failed at enforcing its good intentions or succeeded at something much darker.
Why do we have to accept this as either/or here? Why can't we continue to embrace both sides of this opposition?
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sounded the alarm or choked us at the exit.
And I guess that the point is that we have to live with both sides of the oppositions presented in this paragraph
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