A Short History of Progress - Ronald Wright Audiobook
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A brilliant, sobering, highly readable, and utterly fascinating rumination on the hubris at the heart of human development and the pitfalls we still may have time to avoid
Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. We live at a time of runaway growth in human numbers, consumption, and technology. The great question we now face is how, and whether, this can go on. Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament, though new in scale, is as old as humankind.
A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warming to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into “progress traps,” beginning with the worldwide slaughter of big game in the Stone Age. The same pattern of overconsumption then took a new form as many of the world’s most creative civilizations–Mesopotamia, the Maya, the Roman Empire–fell victim to their own success.
Only by understanding our pattern of progress and disaster, Wright contends, can we hope to change our ways and ensure that civilization has a long term future.
“[Ronald Wright] is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures.”–Jan Morris
“A wise, timely, and brilliant book.”–Toronto Globe and Mail
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
March 29th, 2020
Superbio! Full monkey-marks.
March 30th, 2020
thank you
March 30th, 2020
Thanks, Lionheartinatinman. And I promise not to throw feces at anyone.
March 30th, 2020
Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard all that before…
March 30th, 2020
Thanks a lot.
March 30th, 2020
Thanks. This is actually a transcript of the 5 part Massey Lectures broadcast on the CBC radio show “ideas”. For those interest, Ronald Wright and “Ideas” revisited the some of concepts recently. Just google “Escape options narrowing for world caught in ‘progress trap’: Ronald Wright”.
March 30th, 2020
Forgive the lack of grammar, it’s late. LOL
March 30th, 2020
@caesar: I have the best of intentions, I just cannot help myself.
Might be considered the original form of sh*t-posting!
April 15th, 2020
The whole Easter Island story may not actually be like he is telling it
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/weapons-of-war-rapa-nui-mataa-morphometric-analyses/56FBC5BD6531492A93F6023C6E318CD0
March 10th, 2022
This so-called progress is a load of revisionist nonsense. We should go back to the 1950s when women and brown people knew their place. Everyone was content with their lot until pink haired lesbians started stirring up trouble.
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April 4th, 2023
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