A Short History Of Progress – Or Lack Thereof

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...race makes advances is amazing, and it seems there is no end to what we can accomplish, all in the name of progress. But is progress a good thing? At least one person argues that what we call progress may actually be a harbinger of destruction. This paper examines the book A Short History of Progress by Ronald White and uses it as a springboard to argue that modern civilization is badly out of step with nature, and will fall into the technology trap and eventually perish. The paper considers Gauguin’s three questions as well: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Discussion
White’s book is wise and very witty, as well as extremely profound. White considers Gauguin’s three questions; in fact, his book is his attempt to answer the third by considering the first two. That is, he looks at the future of mankind in terms of its past, and draws some startling inferences from previous behavior that indicates we are...

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