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Progress
The true definition of progress is "advancement towards more good", though in the mainstream the term has been twisted to stand for falsehoods such as "more complicated technology", "bigger economy" and so on. Idiots 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 extremely simple equalities such as "moar buttons in a program = more gooder", hence the language degeneration.
It's crucial to realize that by definition the only true progress that matters is just that which gets us closer to our ideal society, 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, scientific, artistic, political and so on only 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 mostly made so that it works AGAINST the main goal, i.e. corporations develop more complicated technology to exploit people more and make them more miserable -- that is not true progress, it is its exact opposite.
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" | 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 |
| What do you do? | manufacture (things) | manufacture (machines that manufecture things) | no |
| Are you forced to work? | yes, with a whip | yes, with law/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 | 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 | yes |
| What do you kill each other with? | sticks | nothing | yes |