"Humanity and the Polished Claws"

Within Western civilization, you awaken to your humanity, your very existence, your inherent worth, your liberty, and your dignity. Yet, despite it all, one cannot help but marvel at its underlying Machiavellianism.The Renaissance dawned in Italy, only to stall without giving rise to an industrial revolution, ultimately culminating in early-twentieth-century fascism. Italy eventually cast off a fascist regime that not only devastated the Italian people, but whose colonial voracity also set out to annihilate other nations.