Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.

Lord Dunsany
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In the famous essay by Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus” he said “Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked ‘Progress’. The destination will never be reached. It is a delusion to think otherwise.

Sisyphus, who was condemned to this ceaseless rolling stone up hill, was happy. He did not know that the whole time his rock was moving downward toward the abyss.”

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