We get so used to some paradigms that we forget to ever question them. Perhaps the one I find the most troublesome is the idea we have in the West of “progress”—or is that Progress with a capital P?
Progress has the underlying assumption that we can only get better, that things are constantly improving, and this particular false assumption riddles our political landscape. The very word “progress” gives rise to “progressive” parties with “progressive policies,” and these typically arrogate to themselves a certain virtue and self-righteousness, as if they—and they alone—represent that tide of history which is helping and advancing humanity. They are not like stuffy “conservatives” and such-like, with their antiquated, iniquitous, backward-looking, and selfish ideologies.
