Possibly, as Ronald Wright suggests, our system of living is a dangerous mistake:
Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. . . . The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one’s interest. It is a suicide machine.
(Before the ellipsis, the quote is from page 108, and, after, from page 131 of A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright, 2004 CBC Massey Lectures.)
For a brief biography and image of Ronald Wright, click here.
Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. . . . The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one’s interest. It is a suicide machine.
(Before the ellipsis, the quote is from page 108, and, after, from page 131 of A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright, 2004 CBC Massey Lectures.)
For a brief biography and image of Ronald Wright, click here.
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