Posts Tagged ‘ Progress ’

Industrial Slaughter and War: The March of Progress

Aug 14th, 2009 | By Addison Wiggin | Category: Featured, Politics
In science and technology, knowledge builds up as people make new mistakes: Technology may, like digits in an actuarial table, improve and compound, accumulating gradually over time. But in love, finance, and the rest of life, people make the same old mistakes, over and over again. As soon as the ...read more

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Making History and the Myth of Progress

Aug 12th, 2009 | By Addison Wiggin | Category: Featured, Politics
No history recalls what the 5,000 or so Normans must have felt when they saw the English coastline in 1066, nor what they had for breakfast, or how their wives and daughters missed them at home on that day. Nor does it tell us how the peasants in Toncarville coaxed ...read more

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