Civilisation

Civilisation: a collection of self-centred human beings of an endless variety of races, persuasions, nationalities, mental states and cognitive and other abiltities dominating all other earthly species and constantly trying both not to speak their minds among others of their kind and resist their urges and instincts in an attempt to peacefully coexist in close proximity to others of their own species (i.e. tiptoeing around others), nearly every one of them easily offended, hurt and/or scared (but denying this) and all of them ultimately selfish, consequently resembling a time bomb impossible to defuse but hidden away in an attempt to feign ignorance about its existence and hoping in vain this will prevent it from exploding.