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The Importance of Progress
I don't dispute that cultures, consciousnesses and organisms evolved. I think you'd have to be either wildly ahistorical and ignorant to disagree with that. However what I'd question is the idea of attributing a moral value to this. This idea that there was something intrinsically better about how we are now than say a thousand years ago. Well. That I do question, I think that's not, that's that's that’s that we can do that I dispute. It sounds like your concern about progress comes in two forms. You are skeptical of claims of progress and you are doubtful that one can ground it as moral in nature. Is that what you're saying? Essentially