Talk:Myth of Progress

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Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - could be a notable topic. PhilKnight (talk) 20:29, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other search phrases that can present some good results are "progress is an illusion", "illusion of progress", "progress is a myth", "progress is a lie". Some results are, of course, out of context and not related at all with this topic, but a lot of them are. Maziotis (talk) 21:27, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have time right now to explore this, but I found some authors that have written on the theme of the "myth of progress" that may be worth checking out. One author that seems to be directly involved with the idea described here is David F. Noble.

Other authors that I found in an amazon search use the term "myth of progress" in the title but their work might concern development criticism in general, and not necessarily a negation of the idea of progress as presented here. It may still be worth checking out for those interested in exploring this topic, and writing this article. They are, Arthur Penty, Tom Wessels, Franco Ferrarotti, Mehrdad M. Zarandi, Eileen B. Leonard.

I think this article needs a lot of work in an historical perspective to understand the development of the idea. Authors associated with the more recent movement, anarcho-primitivism, like John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen are clearly associated in an explicit way, but I would also like to find some other references that explore this, perhaps from past social movements and other philosophical currents. Just today I stumbled on a quote from the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein about progress as a delusion. I think it would be great if we could start discussing some of the more prominent ones in here. Maziotis (talk) 00:54, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]