# Progress

The true definition of progress is "advancement towards more [good](good.md)", though in the [mainstream](mainstream.md) the term has been twisted to stand for falsehoods such as "[more complicated technology](capitalist_technology.md)", "[bigger economy](capitalism.md)" and even just "any kind of change whatsoever". [Idiots](retard.md) rarely think, they can't ask a series of two questions in a row such as "what will this lead to and is the result what we want?", they can [only understand](shortcut_thinking.md) extremely simple [equalities](shortcut_thinking.md) such as "moar buttons in a program = more gooder", hence the language degeneration.

By further analysis we find that (TRUE) progress means increasing (TRUE) [freedom](freedom.md), i.e. enabling more options to freely choose from, while ideally -- and very importantly -- NOT removing the already available options, i.e. progress should for example ensure that people can wear clothes, but it must NOT come at the price of making it mandatory to wear clothes, otherwise we are not dealing with progress, only with change or transformation (and whether the change is good or bad is then a separate question). Today's dystopic society aiming to exploit people (as opposed to being concerned with their well being) indeed twisted the meaning of "progress" exactly to stand for "constant change", which is additionally either insignificant (in the better case) or for the worse (usually the case).

Primarily we must realize one thing: by definition the only true progress that matters and should be pursued is just that which gets us closer to our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), i.e. progress is only that which makes the life of every individual better as a whole and all other kinds of "progress", such as [technological](tech.md), [scientific](science.md), artistic, political and so on exist SOLELY to serve the main progress of well being of individuals. A thousand year leap in technological development is worth absolutely nothing if it doesn't serve the main goal, it's useless if we can send a car to space, harvest energy of a whole star or find the absolute meaning of life if that doesn't serve the main goal -- in fact such "progress" is [nowadays](21st_century.md) mostly made so that it works AGAINST the main goal, i.e. [corporations](corporation.md) develop more complicated technology to exploit people more and make them more miserable -- that is not true progress, it is its exact opposite -- a more sophisticated kind of degeneration.

Here is a comparison of what TRUE progress is and what it isn't:

| what                                                | before                          | after                                          | is it progress?  |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| You see food, can you just eat it?                  | yes                             | no, you have to pay for it                     | no, the opposite |
| Can you draw the same picture as someone else?      | yes                             | no, because of [copy"right"](copyright.md)     | no, the opposite |
| Can you walk around naked?                          | yes                             | no                                             | no, the opposite |
| Can you pee wherever you want?                      | yes                             | no                                             | no, the opposite |
| Do you have to remember ten different passwords?    | no                              | yes                                            | no, the opposite |
| Can you drink river water?                          | yes                             | no, likely has toxic chemicals                 | no, the opposite |
| Do you have to check your bank account often?       | no, there are no banks          | yes                                            | no, the opposite |
| You have to do something you hate most of the day?  | yes, e.g. work on the field     | yes, e.g. work on a computer                   | no               |
| Can you wear clothes?                               | no                              | yes                                            | yes              |
| Do you have to wear clothes?                        | no                              | yes                                            | no, the opposite |
| What do you do?                                     | manufacture (things)            | manufacture (machines that manufecture things) | no               |
| Are you forced to work?                             | yes, with a whip                | yes, with [law](law.md)/tech/consumerism       | no               |
| Can your society do something spectacular?          | yes, build a pyramid            | yes, fly a toy helicopter on Mars              | no               |
| You are sick, will you get treatment?               | only if you're special (noble)  | only if you're special (rich)                  | no               |
| Will you get education?                             | only if you're special (noble)  | only if you're special (rich)                  | no               |
| What do you kill each other with?                   | sticks                          | machine guns                                   | no               |
| Can you do something you enjoy most of the day?     | no                              | yes                                            | yes              |
| Can you talk to someone on the other side of Earth? | no                              | yes, thanks to [Internet](internet.md)         | yes              |
| Can you have sex with anyone you want?              | no                              | yes                                            | yes              |
| How long will you likely live?                      | not beyond 50                   | probably above 65                              | yes              |
| Can you communicate complex ideas to others?        | no (apes)                       | yes, thanks to [language](human_language.md)   | yes              |
| What do you kill each other with?                   | sticks                          | nothing                                        | yes              |