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Progress Without Heroes
The ultimate question of human history, as we’ll see, is not our equal access to material resources (land, calories, means of production), much though these things are obviously important, but our equal capacity to contribute to decisions about how to live together.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
These cycles of challenge and adaptation can sometimes add to the sum total of human knowledge and insight, and in this sense, at least, human societies can be said to progress.