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This 5 page paper examines the book A Short History of Progress by Ronald White and uses it as a springboard to argue that modern civilization is badly out of step with nature, and will fall into the “technology trap” and eventually perish. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is progress a good thing? At least one person argues that what we call progress may actually be a harbinger of destruction. This paper examines the book A Short History
of Progress by Ronald White and uses it as a springboard to argue that modern civilization is badly out of step with nature, and will fall into the "technology trap"
and eventually perish. The paper considers Gauguins three questions as well: "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" Discussion Whites book is wise and very
witty, as well as extremely profound. White considers Gauguins three questions; in fact, his book is his attempt to answer the third by considering the first two. That is, he
looks at the future of mankind in terms of its past, and draws some startling inferences from previous behavior that indicates we are quite likely to be in serious trouble
if we continue as before. One of his observations, which is so obvious that its overlooked a lot, is that if we can see clearly "what we are and what
we have done, we can recognize human behavior that persists through many times and cultures" (White, 2004, p. 2). If we know our past, we can use it to predict
what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly wholesome or encouraging. White points out that as the dominant species on the
planet, man can no longer afford to make the kinds of mistakes he has in the past (White, 2004). If we continue to blunder along, we are quite likely to
cause the end of civilization, because our presence is now too "large" to be ignored, and anything we do will have profound effects (White, 2004). But the interesting thing seems
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