Great piece here Andrew on human progress. I love the quote about Nazi Germany, could not have been said better.
We must remember that regimes like this, including the fictional one portrayed in 1984, will inevitably collapse. The seeds of their downfall are ingrained in their DNA.
Progress requires inclusivity, these regimes were anything but, rather they used the fruits of progress for their own oppressive means.
Orwell is correct to caution that progress however, is far from guaranteed. We do not match steadily from the primitive to the advanced. Progress is hard and rests on a delicate balance of counterintuitive factors. Something I have emphasized at Risk & Progress.
Great piece here Andrew on human progress. I love the quote about Nazi Germany, could not have been said better.
We must remember that regimes like this, including the fictional one portrayed in 1984, will inevitably collapse. The seeds of their downfall are ingrained in their DNA.
Progress requires inclusivity, these regimes were anything but, rather they used the fruits of progress for their own oppressive means.
Orwell is correct to caution that progress however, is far from guaranteed. We do not match steadily from the primitive to the advanced. Progress is hard and rests on a delicate balance of counterintuitive factors. Something I have emphasized at Risk & Progress.