On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Economic progress was not my choice of words. Note that I put the word 
> "progress" in [ironic] quotation marks. I don't, however, eschew small-p 
> progress as a synonym for "better than this," as distinct from the triumphal 
> capital-p March of Progress. But you already knew that.
> 


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Sorry; I misread your second sentence as implying that the term could still be 
meaningful if it was re-purposed.

Would progress occur if we had a much more humble family of meanings conveyed 
by the term progress? It seems to be a term lots of people would be loathe to 
consign to the dustbin.

E.
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