.............................it might be that the veneer of civilization is very thin.
Yet as ancient observers from Thucydides to Aeneas point out, ideological professions were often high-sounding cover for personal agendas—private feuds, concern over debts, petty envies and jealousies—that ignited whenever the social fabric was torn through sieges, which worked like plagues and revolution to strip away the patina of civilization.
-Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
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