One of the greatest fallacies of the \'modern world\' is the notion of \'progress\'.
Civilisations have gone through the same processes over millennia, recorded by the sages of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Ar.
What we are going through is nothing new. to be uniquely \'enlightened\'.
We think of our \'progressive values\' of liberalism, self-indulgence, materialism, universal human rights, multiculturalism...
We imagine the entirety of history as culminating in a Darwinian march toward Western Civilisation.
One of the greatest fallacies of the \'modern world\' is the notion of \'progress\'