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Growth and Guilt - Psychology and the Limits of Development (Paperback)
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Growth and Guilt - Psychology and the Limits of Development (Paperback)
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The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and
technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When
did this race towards the limitless begin?
The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in
mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and
referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code.
Whoever desired or possessed too much was implacably punished by
nemesis, yet the Greeks themselves were to pioneer an unprecedented
level of ambition that began to reverse that tabu.
If it is true that no culture can truly repudiate its origins, and
that gods who are no longer potent can vanish but still leave
behind a body of myth which coninues to live and assert itself in
modernized garb, then our concern with the limits of growth
reflects something more than an awareness of new technological
problems - it also brings to light a psychic wound a a feeling of
guilt which are infinitely more ancient.
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