I think the effects of world war one are more complicated. It did shock people
into a disbelief in natural progress. And some people into a sense that humans
would have to take control of their own destiny. But if Arno Meyer is right, it
marked the final destruction of the old feudal order in Europe. And in the
course of the next century or so opened the possibilities which are still being
explored.
Social complexity. Technological improvement. Moral stagnation. So many ways to
progress not all of them the same.
Rod
Brad De Long wrote:
> >Nice writing, Brad!
>
> Thanks. *Blush*
>
> > > ... high water mark of belief in Progress. By and large the past two
> >centuries
> >>have seen the reaction, and confidence in human Progress -- technological,
> >>political, humanistic, and moral -- fell out of intellectual favor.
> >
> >I suspect an awful lot of that happened as a consequence of WW1, doncha
> >reckon?
>
> Yup...
>
> >
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