ic. The disease of marginless living is insidious, widespread, and virulent" (16).
"Stress, overload and complexity" (31) are inevitable results of progress. At the same time, we ourselves have contributed to the overload and marginless situation which has resulted from progress. If we were hopeless and helpless in the face of progress, then there would have been no reason for Swenson to have written this book. For example, "if progress gave us wealth, we contributed avarice" (32). Progress gives us much greater power over our environment, but there are unexpected consequences to such power---such as the destruction of the environment over which we believed we were increasing our control. Swenson writes: "Trying to solve man's problems by giving him more power is like trying to tame the wolf by letting it play with the lamb" (33).
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