The society that organised the first games did not survive long and dissolved soon after them.

Just how many societies survive may depend on another fundamental problem for the industry.

A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.

That being the case, how could a society survive at all?

Little resembling government or civil society has survived in Chechnya.

Finally, he said softly, "I don't think our society could survive that."

No society could survive without that concept; you have to have something to show for your work at the end of the day.

Nevertheless the societies survived, although their nature has changed through the centuries.

Assume that human beings and free societies will indeed survive.

Now I understand that no society, human or otherwise, can survive for long without a "code of honor".