Sure, my country too had a revolution and overthrew a Fascist dictatorship. That doesn't make it a measure of civilization though.

I've lived in several countries of Europe and the web controlling Brits is exceptional in its breadth and depth and quite subtle: for example watch the BBC and look for language that subtly classifies different people as having different implicity trustworthiness, for example how they will report Israeli authorities as "saying" or "stating" things whilst Palestinian authorities "claim" things - this kind of technique is not just used for the Israeli Genocide, it's used for everything and pretty hard to internally compensate for even if you're aware of it because it mainly affects you at a subconscious level. Brits are constantly being indoctrinated and manipulated, all done with way more subtlety than run of the mill dictatorships.

Or look at how their level of civil society surveillance as shown by the Snowden Revelations was even worse than the US.

Further, do you know they have a Press censorship scheme called D-Notices? Most Britons don't even know this.

In many ways Britain is a lot more like an Authoritarian Regime with a bit of performative voting (think Russia) than a Democratic country, only it's all done way more subtly with far more advanced manipulation techniques as the structures supporting it have been developed over, literally, centuries.

(That's why I said that I left the country thinking it was basically the closest to Fascism we have in Europe, just disguised as posh)

Yet plenty of people over there still have very strong principles to the point that 1.5% of the population went out and demonstrated purely for their principles and not at all their own personal good and people are still going out and risking being arrested by the government as "terrorist supporters" for demonstrating against a Genocide that doesn't actually affect them personally.

Granted, at the same time there is also a large fraction of the population who are complete cunts, from Financiers in the City and the Political class, to Racist Nationalists.

Don't get me wrong: British Society itself is quite backwards as European nations go in many things, it's just that a significant fraction of the population do hold personal humanist values and are willing to at least go out and demonstrate and even face the authorities for them. I compare it with my own country - Portugal - whose society isn't quite as ill (it has its problems, mainly different ones) but activism for actual principle around here is almost non-existent (sure, people will demonstrate and even strike for their own personal good, but for example a far smaller fraction of people was demonstrating against the Israeli Genocide here than in Britain) and don't get me started on just hugely unlikely people around here are to do thinks like avoiding having a car for Ecological reasons.

PS: In fact, now that I think about it, a lot of the reason why I think that Revolutionary Capability is not the same as Civilization is the observation on my own country of how people can be perfectly capable of fighting for themselves to the point of overthrowing a dictatorship and yet won't at all fight for others. In my view, "civilization" must include fighting against certain things happenning to anybody and only just fighting against those things happenning to oneself is merely Survival.