The Biocentric Worldview Quotes

“Make no mistake: “progress” is the lust for power, and we must unmask its method as a sick, destructive joke. Utilizing such pretexts as “necessity,” or “economic development,” the final goal of “progress” is nothing less than the destruction of life. This destructive urge takes many forms: progress is devastating forests,exterminating animal species, extinguishing native cultures, masking and distorting the pristine landscape with the varnish of industrialism, and debasing the organic life that still survives.”
― Ludwig Klages, The Biocentric Worldview: Selected Essays and Poems of Ludwig Klages

“Make no mistake: “progress” is the lust for power and nothing besides, and we must unmask its method as a sick, destructive joke. Utilizing such pretexts as “necessity,” “economic development,” and “culture,” the final goal of “progress” is nothing less than the destruction of life.
This destructive urge takes many forms: progress is devastating forests,exterminating animal species, extinguishing native cultures, masking and distorting the pristine landscape with the varnish of ndustrialism, and debasing the organic life that still survives.”
― Ludwig Klages, The Biocentric Worldview: Selected Essays and Poems of Ludwig Klages