#MoralProgress

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-04-17

History only moves forward.
Much of what now seems horrific was once a hard-won step forward.
Progress compounds—and reveals the past’s brutality not because people chose badly, but because we’ve built better choices.
Look back with grace. They carried what we now set down.

Quinn McHugh 🔶⿻ (he/him)quinnmchugh
2025-01-21

Hanzi Freinacht on redesigning society to optimize for "goals of the soul" instead of goals of industrial output.

Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of functioning; its institutions must be geared towards achieving more psychological goals. More goals of the soul.
2024-02-15

> ... the connection between technological and moral progress. William Blake wrote of the “dark satanic mills” which stripped men of their souls. He insisted that passivity in the face of the alleged movement of “progress” leads to psychic slavery. Matthew Arnold warned that “faith in machinery” was humankind’s greatest menace.
#TheMachine #ProgressTheory #MoralProgress #WilliamBlake #MatthewArnold

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