What Progress Wants - by Paul Kingsnorth
What Progress Wants - by Paul Kingsnorth
Section titled “What Progress Wants - by Paul Kingsnorth”What Progress Wants
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Section titled “Highlights”- For Illich, any claims that we lived in a ‘secular age’ were nonsense. The modern West was still Christian, he said, but it had disastrously attempted to codify the spontaneous expressions of love which Christ had shown to be God’s desire for humanity within systems and institutions. First the Church, and then the supposedly ‘secular’ liberal states which had succeeded it, had attempted to transmute Christian love into obligation and enforce it by law, thus twisting it into a new form of oppression. The modern West had become a monstrous ‘corruption of the New Testament’
- Note: Mistakenly assuming that it is the outcome which is important, rather than the effect that action has on the actor (spontaneous = good, coerced = bad).