The paradox of progress is that because there is no universal utopia — every utopia is built on someone’s back — there can be no universal progress, no absolute measure of it. Its relativism conceals a euphemism for moving the world in the direction of one’s own desires, relativism laced with myriad hypocrisies.
Author: Maria Popova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: History, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: History, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
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