Criss JamiI am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.
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This quote is a good example of the problem with the idea of progress. The speaker is acknowledging that humanity has made improvements to its technology, but he doesn’t believe it has made progress in terms of human beings. He doesn’t believe it has improved as a whole. He believes that humans are still the same as they were in the past, only achieving more with less.
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