Obviously

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Fri Oct 20 14:44:19 PDT 2000


In message <20001020114344.SM00136@[192.168.1.8]>, martin schiller <mschiller at mac.com> writes
>
>Well, since you pose opposition, what is "better" because of human
>"progress"? Or more succinctly, can you point out a global problem that
>is not a direct result of human "progress"?

Human existence is better because of progress. Printing presses, drains, indoor toilets, vaccinations, literacy and all those other things that make life worth living.

Global problems, by definition, arise because of an absence of progress. So for example, the United States' decision to 'bomb Iraq back into the stone age' reversed the progress in health care and nutrition that country had seen in the sixties and seventies.

-- James Heartfield



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