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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The assumptions that an advanced society also wouldn't have been global in scale doesn't make much sense.
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I don't recall saying they weren't global or had a global presence? We should consider that maybe they had no desire to be global? The technology may have existed to allow for them to have a global presence, but that same tech may have allowed them to stay in the same region where family units resided? Again, you're looking at this through a modern context and not the context of the time or that society's cultural norms. A culture may have traditions where they are in tune with their environment, so then choose to use technology in as non-destructive means as possible. I would expect this of agrarian cultures. I would think that truly "advanced" civilizations would be more cognizant of the impact they have to the world around them and do as much as possible to limit their impact and damage to the environment around them. I suspect that in the future, people will look back at how we treated our planet the past hundred to two hundred years and shake their heads, thinking we were no better than cavemen with iPhones. It is the height of our arrogance to think we are the apex anything and living at the pinnacle of civilization.