Author Archives: Ethan Green
The Point of Pain in an Anesthetized Society
The venue: the Royal Geographical Society. The motion: ‘We’ve Never Had it so Good.’ For the motion: two interchangeable rationalists armed with pie charts and line graphs demonstrably proving that the pie of prosperity only gets bigger and the line of progress – x axis Time, y axis Science – ascends steadily towards quantifiable happiness. Against […]
Working machines: by optimising our lives, have we lost what makes them worth living?
By cramming as much studying and socializing into every 24 hours as possible, are we leaving out something more important?