X-Message-Number: 14749
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:39:12 +0200
From: Stasys Adiklis <>
Subject: Are we fighting The Progress?
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Hi,

> "The progress of society is nothing but the slow and far remote result of
> steady, laborious, painstaking growth of individuals. [skip]"
>                                                          -- William Graham

Wrong. In order for new ideas to take over - old ideas should be burried.
Even the perfectly working practices, principles, ideologies, etc... should
be sent to grave in order to make space for even better ideas to take over.

Conquer the death and the progress is gone.

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul
becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out,
and that the growing generation is familiarised with the ideas from the
beginning."
                            Max Planck - Scientific Autobiography (1949)

Thats the sad truth. I guess that we are yet to find the right answer
to this "siple" question: "to be or not to be?"...


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