- Chuck berry22
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Halo 2
People are crazy, and times are strange...
Posted by: SonOfTheShire
If I set a goal and complete it, how have I not made progress?That is the typical definition.
But your arbitrary goal has no relevance to the universe besides your own individual satisfaction of hunter gathering instincts. Your ancestors thought they made your definition of progress when they went on the hunt and came back with the kill. Yet, did they not have to hunt again and kill again? Seems like no progress is made there
But technology is only resource relocation, derived from planetary materials. There is a finite resource, but an infinite demand by the society technology helped develop. So if we are only moving atoms and energy, but never creating our own matter... How can progress be defined?
Of course progress in society's spectrum is the compounding/accumulation of generations with their ideas. Yet, if any one of us were born without our predecessors knowledge/proper education- what progress would continue and carry on? Im saying that the hardware we use as individual think tanks is outdated and dependent on software to advance our compounding/accumulations.
And until we find a solution to turn the negative equation into a positive... The way we have lived the past 200+ years is not sustainable and therefor not progress. If you really want to plot progress on a plus and minus line- unfortunately- its always on the negative side of said line, because we cannot substitute our reliance on matter that originated in our solar system, in which we take carelessly... Kinda like an inheritance and the one who got it is spending it all without making any of their own wealth.