Why is it that people believe in progress as invariably 'positive'--that we're moving 'ahead' and 'upwards', that the future is going to be better than the past, that we-who-are-now trumps who-we-were-then (visions of those Charlie Chaplin black-and-white jerky images) in short "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better"?
Whoops, sorry. I'm supposed to be answering the questions.
But who's to say that it isn't the past which is superior to the future, and that childhood isn't better than adulthood, and that sleep is our default state rather than waking consciousness. These things are worth considering.
According to what sits rightly with me, time doesn't 'happen'. There's no 'flow' to it. I suspect that it is quantized and that it equates to consciousness, but that's for the by-and-by. Time, though, is a construct. All 'times' are at once--it's just that we do not perceive it as such. And if that is the case, then all times are likely to be as important or right or real as each other.
Oh, people say, but we are heading to the future. We cannot travel back in time. However, we cannot travel to the future either. It is never tomorrow; it is always now. And at least with the past, we have knowledge of it. And so at best, we are walking towards the future, but backwards, while facing the past.
And you can't tell me that's 'progress'.
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