Civilized To Death: The Price of Progress Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways that “progress” has perverted just how we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.

Most of us have instinctive proof the world is closing—balmy December times, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant battle, a political system in disarray. We listen to some common myths and lies so often that they feel like truths: Civilization is definitely humankind’s about Civilized To Loss of life: The price tag on Progress greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count number your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and today. Well, probably we are and perhaps we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is definitely inherently great, arguing which the “progress” determining our age is usually analogous to an advancing disease.

Prehistoric life, of course, had not been without significant dangers and disadvantages. Many infants died in infancy. A damaged bone, infected wound, snakebite, or hard pregnancy could possibly be life-threatening. But ultimately, Ryan argues, were these pre-civilized risks even more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically long term dying process? At a time when our ecology, our society, and our own feeling of selves feels more and more imperiled, an accurate knowledge of our varieties’ longer prelude to civilization is key to a clear feeling of the best worth of civilization—and its costs. In Civilized to Death, Ryan makes the claim that we ought to start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.