the progress trap

and how to avoid it
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History abounds with examples of communities that were sufficiently intelligent to avoid disaster, yet failed to do so.

 

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traps

Freud's attack on nature
Darwin: mental atrophy
Progress, the video
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solutions

Friar Roger Bacon
Federal Express
Venice (beginnings)
Sustainable development
Darwin and poetry
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insight

Damasio's decision
Progress or Paradigm?
Division of mental labour
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