What is progress? Is it a good thing? Does making more machines equal progress? These are the questions Surviving Progress aims to answer. They could have used a bazooka and still would have missed the bullseye. It says much about how the documentary is framed that these are the questions posed. They are not clear on what "progress" means and are not clear on explaining it. If your thesis begins with erroneous information that the audience completely disagrees with, you cannot win them over successfully. This film indicates that we are like our ancestors in the ice age, our primitive hunter-gatherers of the cave man days, that we come from chimps, and that civilization...
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