It's all about perspectives

Civilization is SUCH a big concept. It doesn't really apply to everything and it definitely does not apply in the same way so it's basically impossible to define it. Yes I know I'm pretty much stating the obvious, there are tons of books about this subject but these are things one only realizes when actually in the real situations.

Take Uganda for instance, beautiful country where I have had the opportunity and the luck to spend some time working. I happened to do some follow up visits in the most remote villages of the country and I visited homes and households which I had honestly seen only on TV or pictures.

Yep, that's exactly when it hits you.
People live there.
They sleep there, wake up there in the morning, eat, shower, do whatever people do in a house. If you compare it to a European standard it will most definitely be not considered a home and yet to them it is and they clean it and take care of it exactly like I would sweep the floor or take out the trash at night.

crazy uh? I guess the same concept applies to politics, their politics. I find myself thinking most of the times: this system does not work, how can they NOT see that? Well they can't see it because the problem does not exist to them. The system works perfectly. Why change it, improve it, develop it?

Well, I had not thought of that...

Introduction

Six degrees of separation is the concept that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer all over the world. (Freely re adapted from Wikipedia).




Ideally this could be adapted to any other concept in the world, even to civilization; it would be obviously easier since the countries in the world are fewer than its inhabitants but it is the general idea which counts.
It may sound utopia but I personally like to think that nowadays the world has reached great levels of interconnections and even the furthest and most difficult countries can be reached; they are only a few steps away.One step after the other, one connection after the other, if done in the right way we should be able to reach a chain of civilization, a process which develops itself and touches countries which are still left untouched.

The world is not that big after all..

Moving around makes it easier to keep track of whereabouts.

Sure enough, Africa is far, the culture is very different and so are the people.

But it takes only one person, one single person to show that despite all, civilization is there.

it's not that far, only a few degrees away, probably not even six.