real ending, so the chapter simply stops after this last detail.
6 Thomas Jefferson quoted in Robert Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress
(New York: Basic Books, 1980), 198.
7 Jules Henry, Culture Against Man (New York: Random House, 1963), 16-
- Crawford Young quotes Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru and sociologist
Orlando Patterson, pointing out that Third World countries also bought into
progress. See “Ideas of Progress in the Third World,” in Gabriel Almond et
al., eds., Progress and Its Discontents (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 1982), 83.
8 According to the Advertising Council’s citizenship manual, Good Citizen,
quoted in Stuart Little, “The Freedom Train” (Bloomington: Indiana University,
c. 1990, typescript), 11.
9 Edward H. Carr, What Is History? (New York: Random House, 1961), 158,
166; see also Almond et al., eds., Progress and Its Discontents, xi. Some
Americans have a contrary need to believe our society has been, on balance, a
curse to humankind. Such thinking has alternative psychological and cultural
payoffs, allowing believers to imagine themselves wiser, “lefter,” or more
critical than their peers.
10 Carr, What Is History?, 116; L. S. Stavrianos, Global Rift (New York:
Morrow, 1981), 38. In Why Are They Lying to Our Children? (New York:
Stein and Day, 1984), 124, Herbert London argues that the gap between rich
and poor nations is not widening. See also: Cliff DuRand, “Mexico-U.S.
Migration: We Fly, They Walk,” talk at Morgan State University, 11/16/2005,
at World Prout Assembly website,
worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/01/mexicous_migrat.html, 11/2006;
Giovanni Arrighi, “The African Crisis,” New Left Review 15, 5/2002,
newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2387, 11/2006.
11 Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate , 116.
12 Almond et al., eds., Progress and Its Discontents, xi.
13 The Reagan and Bush administrations still maintained through the 1980s
that there was no population crisis, even in the Third World, because larger
populations created more opportunity for capitalist development. These
statements were intended to appeal to antiabortion groups at home, however,
not as serious analyses of the social structures of disadvantaged nations, whose