I tend to be fairly quantitative, and skeptical of any and all "ism's" and aware that the problem with most frameworks is in the construction not their application.
So what does that mean in the context of progress, humanism and agency. Well it means you throw out the humanism. Progress collapses into the expansion of human agency. The expansion of human agency is actually enabled by women's rights, public health and nutrition. Tough to have agency without first giving half the population rights and some power over their bodies, and then tough to have agency without clean drinking water and basic health care and food.
Turns out that despite the wonderful inflection in... (read 1107 more words →)
I tend to be fairly quantitative, and skeptical of any and all "ism's" and aware that the problem with most frameworks is in the construction not their application.
So what does that mean in the context of progress, humanism and agency. Well it means you throw out the humanism. Progress collapses into the expansion of human agency. The expansion of human agency is actually enabled by women's rights, public health and nutrition. Tough to have agency without first giving half the population rights and some power over their bodies, and then tough to have agency without clean drinking water and basic health care and food.
Turns out that despite the wonderful inflection in... (read 1107 more words →)