The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the
ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live--how we eat,
learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die--in this
"engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and
thought-provoking" (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive
evidence the world is ending--balmy December days, face-to-face
conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at
constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths
and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is
humankind's greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count
your blessings. You're lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe
we are and maybe we aren't. Civilized to Death counters the idea
that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress"
defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric
life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages.
Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound,
snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But
ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized
dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents,
cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged
dying process? Civilized to Death "will make you see our so-called
progress in a whole new light" (Book Riot) and adds to the timely
conversation that "the way we have been living is no longer
sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive
us" (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start
looking backwards to find our way into a better future.
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