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Essay Archive - Abbey, and His Fear of Progress
Abbey, and His Fear of Progress
The day that the gray jeep with the U.S. Government decal and "Bureau of
Public Roads" on it, Edward Abbey knew that progress had arrived. He had
foreseen it, watching other parks like his, fall in the face of progress.
He knew that hordes of people and their "machines" would come (Abbey 50-51).
Most people see progress as a good thing. Abbey proclaims. "I would rather
take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world (Abbey
60)."
"Prog-ress n. forward motion or advance to a higher goal; an advance;
steady improvement (Webster's)." Is progress really ....
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