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The idea of Progress is a basic dogma in the ideology ofmodernity. Material progress has become the new religion of theworld. But so-called progress has thrust humanity into the core ofa deep crisis. Science and technology continuously devise new waysof destruction that keep the world in a state of permanent danger;economic development condemns whole countries to utter poverty;art has renounced any search for meaning; ecologic catastrophes area matter of routine; violence increases everywhere and human beingsfeel a growing dissatisfaction and emptiness in their lives. Wherethen is progress?In this short but incisive, discerning, sarcastic, caustic, radicaland uncompromising text, the author searches for the real face ofmodernity and progress behind its gleaming make-up and dares todeclare for all that would hear that athe king is naked:. His judgementis clear-cut and categorical: from the spiritual point of view, whichsees man as God-bound, so-called progress is an unmitigated disaster.