{"id":305813,"date":"2021-03-09T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=305813"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:39:42","slug":"the-philosophy-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/09\/the-philosophy-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophy of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strange bias we have in modern times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If we cannot measure or perceive progress, it is meaningless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what about things which <em>cannot<\/em> and <strong><em>should not <\/em><\/strong>be measured? For example love for your partner or child, your progress in your artistic evolution, and just life in general? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-notion-of-progress-as-a-modern-and-vulgar-one\">The notion of progress as a modern and vulgar one <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylorism. Once we were able to industrialize, open up international trade, record and document (spread sheets, bookkeeping, and the clock), the human ethos has become:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How can we extract the maximum efficiency and productivity of a human, and to make him as machinelike and slavelike as possible?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As long as you still require a calendar, scheduling meetings, to check your email, own a phone, or wake up to the agency of an alarm clock, you ain&#8217;t 100% free from the ruthless cult of efficiency and productivity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strange bias we have in modern times: If we cannot measure or perceive progress, it is meaningless. But what about things which cannot and should not be measured? For example love for your \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3F0C5057-99BD-41DC-98A1-ACDBFFB9FE4D-scaled.jpeg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305821,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305813\/revisions\/305821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}