Civilization Needs to Slow Down
Before it collapses.
4 min readAug 23, 2020
In Mary Shelley’s iconic novel Frankenstein, the narrator laments the quick rise of civilization:
“If no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and…
