The Missing Grammar of Modern Civilization asks why the ancient intuition that collective life can be injured and repaired is largely absent from modern civilization’s organizing vocabulary. It traces how science, medicine, law, economics, politics, and technology gained extraordinary power through specialization while fragmenting whole-system responsibility. It then maps a convergence among contemporary health, ecological, sustainability, regenerative, peace, and justice traditions toward a relational, life-grounded orientation. Civilizational Healing is proposed as an integrative grammar—not a master theory or social cure. The work confronts eugenics, paternalism, normalization, and totalization, and presents AI as a historical hinge: either amplifying subsystem optimization or supporting governed collective reflexivity. The aim is not a permanently healthy civilization, but one able to detect injury, hear suffering, repair harm, transform its causes, learn, and revise itself.
