progressophobeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

progressophobe (複数形 progressophobes)

1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
   • 1984, Business International - Volume 31, page 386:

     The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).

   • 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:

     The political philosopher John Gray, an avowed progressophobe, has described the contemporary societies of Western Europe as “terrains of violent conflict” in which “peace and war [are] fatally blurred.

   • 2018 July 8, “Are academics to blame for the rise of populism?”, in Times Higher Education:

     Academics are, apparently, “progressophobes” who chip away at the public's confidence in conventional politics and, through this, may have unwittingly created a vacuum that populism has filled.