Ethics of Progress (with Jason Crawford)
Building Tomorrow
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The idea of progress itself had to be invented before we could actually progress. Put yourself in the shoes of your great, great, 20 times great grandparent who was a mediaeval peasant. The idea that things will just get better over time by some ineluctable law of society would have been utterly alien to them. Through imagination and will power, life could get better, if only because we were determined to make it so. It is dangerous take progress for granted.
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