>>16091We've always been radical!
Radicals are the people who want large scale changes to the status quo, and to set foundations for our future. The move from feudalism to capitalism was radical, Karl Marx's Communism shaping a Soviet Russia was radical, Hitler's natsoc was radically different from the Weimar era, etc…
We're kind of like in the Rome-era of history where people are too consumed by bread and circuses to start their own movement.
>as if we ever had an universal notion of what counts as "progress"Well we ARE basing this progress off of "human" society. So I'd consider advancements in human technology, knowledge, health and so on to be good indicators of progress.