If there is one thing I have learned from the first two quarters of the World Classics Program it is that a) our sense of decline precedes us, and b) that human societies can be seen to cycle through periods of prosperity and growth and periods of decline and stagnation. While this is a simple [...]
Domesticity and Progress: The Vacuum Cleaner Theory and other Thoughts
When we had no technology for “vacuuming,” the entire family might have been involved in the beating of the rugs. Then, along comes the invention of the vacuum cleaner.