ok so i’ve heard at least 2 different definitions of progress.
- one strictly defines progress as technological progress. the reasoning is that “progress” comes from latin “pro-gress” (marching forward) which refers to any labor process feeling very similar to a long march. exhausting.
- another nice angle i’ve heard was that “progress” is a play-on-words with progesterone which is a substance produced by biological women to advance various internal processes, as such it is understood as “what women do” or as women’s movement. it’s silly but i’ve heard it and now so have you.
especially, do you think that “progress” properly describes your goals? do you say that progress is what we need as a society? if no, how else would you describe your goals?
I’d like to give more focus to circular patterns. Instead of continuing the cancer-logic pattern of ‘line must go up’ that progress evokes, we could instead learn how repeating patterns shape our societies, and how we can create sustainable movement.
Edit: this was asking for the definition. So yeah, progress for me is a linear upwards movement.