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