Beyond dentistry
John Gray highlights faith in progress as the fundamental error of our
age in his collection of essays, Heresies, says John Banville
Saturday September 4, 2004
The Guardian
Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions
by John Gray
200pp, Granta, £8.99
Gary Larson, one of the geniuses of our time, has a cartoon of a field
of sheep all grazing peacefully, all, that is, save one wise ovine,
who has lifted its head in appalled astonishment to cry out: "Wait!
This is grass - this is grass we're eating!" John Gray has always been
the odd-sheep-out. He is probably best-known for his book Straw Dogs:
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, the title of which is taken from
a saying by Lao Tzu: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the
myriad creatures as straw dogs." False Dawn, a debunking of the theory
of globalisation, was a global success, having first been dismissed as
mere pessimism and later accepted as a soberly realistic assessment of
the state of international economics. When the bubble of the 1990s
burst with the turn of the millennium, the herd had to admit that yes,
it really is grass.
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