RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM · 2 months ago"the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering" - 1992 statusplus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down13
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-square"the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering" - 1992 statusplus-squarepinRoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM · 2 months agomessage-square1fedilink
RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM · 2 months ago"The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world" - 1954, Detroitplus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-square"The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world" - 1954, Detroitplus-squarepinRoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM · 2 months agomessage-square1fedilink
