Re: [pf] Progress?

by Kaleopono

20 December 2000 05:31 UTC

Tom, thanks for posting Kirkpatrick Sale's piece on five facets of the myth
of progress.  A well-written and thought provoking article.  Kaleopono

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> Herbert Read, the British philosopher and critic, once wrote that "only a
> people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines."
It
> is a profound insight, and he underscored it by adding that "only such
> people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are
> an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them."
>
> An apprenticeship to nature -- now there's a myth a stable and durable
> society could live by.
>
> Kirkpatrick Sale