The Perversity Thesis

The perversity thesis is the idea that progressives who try to change a set of social facts, social structures, what happens. It's linked very deeply to an idea of providence, like that historyin human progress, proceeds according to divine, or otherwise preordained laws. So when human beings try to change things for the better, not only does it fail, but it actually instantiates the opposite of what they were trying to do. The futility thesis is just that the intended effects are, they simply don't, they don't work. And the jeopardy s which is that a whatever the new progressive aim you are looking to achieve, is it imperils past achievements, or