The new year is one of those markers in time that cause people to reflect on the past, asses the present and make decisions and predictions about the future, so I gave a bit of thought as to what to play for you on this first episode of unwelcome guests of the new year. At this time of year there tend to be a number of media offerings looking back on the important events of the previous year which I guess are supposed give us a bearing on where we've been and thus presumably where we are, I decided to that to understand where we are, we'd better go back about 500 years to the birth of a civilization that redefined the pusrsuit of happiness in what turned out to be a monumentally destructive and toxic way. So this week, we'll begin a series of bi monthly lectures and discussions with Professor John Marcianao which are from a public class that meets to read and discuss Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, but first I'd like to rad you an essay that examines the way we define success and happiness societally, the consequences of our ideas about progress, and a vision for a new way of going forward that we might, and one might say must, take
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