The Perfect Recipe For Non-Progress

Progress happens for two reasons, wisdom and/or struggle. Unfortunately wisdom is in short supply (usually requiring a rare mixture of education, experience, and empathy), and those who are struggling are often uninformed and easily manipulated by a dishonest media controlled by the well-served. Therefore we are left with a very small base for those who pursue progress. We live in an insane System where progress depends on the Wise begging the Comfortable and the Ignorant for permission to create change and being denied at every turn. The System must fundamentally change if we are to survive, let alone progress.