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Monday, March 20, 2006

  The March of Progress Dept.:

"Progressing at our current rate, it won’t be long until Americans become a society of invalids complaining that we have to open our eyes in the morning, and that we actually have to breathe."

From "Our Culture of Little Demand" by Daniel Taverne, at American Chronicle.

Taverne's projections of a possible future of fully-automated Americans seem unlikely to me because they are a bit too simple in their extremity; but his main point stands up well enough: that is that the U.S. is succumbing to--largely has succumbed to--a kind of culture of convenience.


Posted by John Gesang    Link Me! 3/20/2006  Archived Posts

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