“History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.”
An Interview with Alan Bean (1992)
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“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”
Source: Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
“Great leaps forward in history are often, in fact, giant leaps back.”
The Reactionary Temptation (2017)
Context: Great leaps forward in history are often, in fact, giant leaps back. The Reformation did initiate brutal sectarian warfare. The French Revolution did degenerate into barbarous tyranny. Communist utopias — allegedly the wave of an Elysian future — turned into murderous nightmares. Modern neoliberalism has, for its part, created a global capitalist machine that is seemingly beyond anyone’s control, fast destroying the planet’s climate, wiping out vast tracts of life on Earth while consigning millions of Americans to economic stagnation and cultural despair.
And at an even deeper level, the more we discover about human evolution, the more illusory certain ideas of progress become.
[Lynne Twist, 2003, The Soul of Money: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Life, New York, New York, W.W. Norton., 252, 039305097]
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