Progress Studies

Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.

"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider