and most 'old ie mature' cultures have eons-ago taken the measure of what does Not constitute a civilization
(..always so much harder to complete any list of what Does, I wot.)

An iggerant populace guarantees that we always need a Twain, Mencken, Vonnegut around to reSHOUT this stuff. I thought that ST (Trek) covered that one well, with the skit of the elders-in-togas preventing YAN testosterone shoot-out / planetary invasion - you remember,

the one wherein the Klingon, after accepting that the fun was off for today, squealed,
It would have been a G l o r i o u s (little?) war!!



Before Light! as in ..Let there Be __,
-was-

cha cha cha :-/