For a couple of centuries, progress has been an industrial undertaking. During this time, smokestacks and iron buildings were built to embellish many skylines. Today, many of these rusty ruins remain as relics of what once happened. And similar “progressive” plans are still being built to make similar results happen somewhere else (in the spirit of “out of sight, out of mind”).
Finding an opponent to progress is probably much harder than finding a needle in a haystack. It is truly difficult to fathom how persistent the belief in mainstream propaganda is — despite the global wakeup-call the CoViD pandemic was. there does not seem to be any dearth of suckers willing to fall for any “progress”-based plan for tomorrow.
I wonder if the progress metaphor is especially well-suited to railroads. Trains usually go forwards, and only rarely in reverse. Ironically, they are a far more rational (and economical) use of energy than electric cars.
It almost seems odd that the metaphor needs to be hammered home through decades of indoctrination in so-called “modern” education systems … and then after “twenty years of schoolin'” they put you on the day shift (or perhaps you go directly to the unemployment line and “do not pass GO”).
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