Peter Kreeft Quote
The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: Ah, but you can't turn back the clock. You can't go home again. You can't stop progress. Yes, you can. This 'ultimate law' is a lie. ...We can stop this false god Progress. But instead we have stopped real progress. Real progress means getting closer to our goal. And the goal of every human being is happiness. Whatever we do, we do to obtain some kind of happiness. And since we are no longer in happy days, it logically follows that we have stopped progressing, by the most universal definition of progress - progress towards happiness. We have regressed.
The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: Ah, but you can't turn back the clock. You can't go home again. You can't stop progress. Yes, you can. This 'ultimate law' is a lie. ...We can stop this false god Progress. But instead we have stopped real progress. Real progress means getting closer to our goal. And the goal of every human being is happiness. Whatever we do, we do to obtain some kind of happiness. And since we are no longer in happy days, it logically follows that we have stopped progressing, by the most universal definition of progress - progress towards happiness. We have regressed.
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