How to Begin to Escape from The Dome
Audio: Listen to this post. 1. Give up the dream of Paradise on Earth. The sight of the rubble of Hiroshima killed the comforting narrative that the progress of science and technology leads to universal happiness; the sound of frozen corpses thrown on sledges in the Gulag destroyed the utopian story of humans instituting a perfect political order; the smell of burning bodies in Auschwitz annihilated Nietzsche’s myth that the ascendance of the Overman, the perfect race, will raise humankind to a new level of existence. Bacon and Descartes imagined a glorious future