#TheGreatProblem

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2025-05-19

"The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live." - February 28, 1954

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RoundSparrow @ .eeRoundSparrow@lemm.ee
2025-03-30

"the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering" - 1992 status

lemm.ee/post/59919146

RoundSparrow @ .eeRoundSparrow@lemm.ee
2025-03-30

"The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world" - 1954, Detroit

lemm.ee/post/59918764

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2025-03-30

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"The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man's soul." - February 28, 1954. Detroit Michigan, United States of America

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