Progress (Buch von 2025)

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Samuel Miller McDonald: Progress. A History of Humanity's Worst Idea. William Collins, 2025.

Gespräche zum Buch im Overpopulation Podcast:

• Folge von 2025-07-08
• Folge von 2025-09-02

Der Klappentext ist ein bisschen sehr vollmundig. Ich bin inzwischen vorsichtig mit Büchern, die Antworten versprechen, zumal es ja auch schon The Myth of Progress (Tom Wessels, 2006) gibt. Ein Vergleich steht noch aus! Die oben gelisteten Gespräche waren aber sehr hörenswert.

Klappentext

Progress is power. But the modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction.

In the pursuit of progress, we have sacrificed our planet. The idea of progress has compelled societies toward exploration an dinvention on one hand, and on the other, genocide, slavery, and conquest: it is the root of our civilisation's success, as well as its looming demise.

Samuel Miller McDonald offers a radical new perspective on the myth upon which the modern world is built, illuminating its blood-strewn lineage and suggesting an urgent alternative. He reveals how human societies broke from their pasts, their environments and values, supplanting these with one imperative to rule all others: progress.

If humanity is to have any chance of a future, then we must fundamentally change the way we think about one of our most basic political ideas. This landmark work shows us where to begin.