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Jason Crawford — The Roots of Progress (EP.162)
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The History of Progress
"I think one of the biggest reasons why people can be so ambivalent about progress at best or hostile to it at worst is just not having this really deep and keen sense of how much progress has been made," he says. "We've completely forgotten about all of the problems that our ancestors had to deal with that have just been erased from history, epidemics of smallpox or cholera in the city streets." In high school, there ought to be courses on the stuff in a university, author argues.
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