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10,000 years of nostalgia: the antiquity of the "progress paradox".(Gregg Easterbrook's "The Progress Paradox")
LIFE GETS BETTER, but people feel worse. In seven short words that's what Gregg Easterbrook's book is about. The Progress Paradox (2003) is a revealing survey of modern discontents ranging widely in the social sciences and medicine, and it's certainly interesting that ten times as many people may now suffer from depression as did half a century ago. But Easterbrook is broad rather than deep, and seems largely unaware that people have been complaining about progress, and looking nostalgically back to the past, for as long as there's been a past to look back to. How depressed they felt when they did so is hard to say--as often as not they seem to have got into a towering ...
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