Progress (Samuel Miller McDonald)
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Progress (Samuel Miller McDonald)
| Full title | Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It |
|---|---|
| Author | Samuel Miller McDonald |
| Published | 2025 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Samuel Miller McDonald’s argument that progress is a myth that pacifies the many and licenses the costs imposed by the few. Saved as an opponent, not an ally. |
Progress (Samuel Miller McDonald)
Where I heard about it
- Kevin A. Bryan (@Afinetheorem) — on X, December 2025, reporting it from the front table of a big bookstore: “For friends interested in Progress, I regret to inform you that on display at front of the big bookstore & with many big-media reviews is this book arguing that progress is an opium-of-the-masses myth and the world is just getting worse.” His real complaint is that this, and not the progress-studies case, is what a general reader encounters first. I filed it with a one-line note: “To refute.”
About this edition
Published in December 2025 to prominent placement and wide review. Titled Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea in the UK.
Connections
- Progress Studies — the position this book is written against, and the reason to read it.
- Ideological Family Tree — the declinist lineage, in its 2025 trade-press form.
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.