Ronald Wright on contemporary American morality:
We’re not civilized. The idea that we’re more civilized than people in the Middle Ages went out the window with secret torture chambers in Baghdad . . . we are no better morally than we have been in the past, and we need to recognize that. The idea that moral progress goes with technological progress is nonsense.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/the-american-middle-ages/210714/
