What progress sounds like

Whether folks know it or not, this is the future.



There are plenty of places in life where we will need to use blunt force because no alternatives really do exist.

But the notion that more force, more recriminiation, more vengeance, more punitiveness, the notion that treating people worse really is the path to progress is just kind of silly and not very serious as a path to genuine progress.

Progress means people getting treated better. Always. Always been so. Will always be so.

And no amount of rationalization otherwise will ever trump that. Ever.

Why? Because treating people like shit has consequences. Consequences we are all dealing with, right now, when we're not bullshitting otherwise.

Political parties, like private citizens, will have to deal with some hard knocks until they get that figured out. But we will definitely be learning those lessons, over time. Why? Because things won't get better until we do.

And, bottom-line, progress means things getting better.

And no amount of the world turning into a shitheap will ever successfully bullshit itself otherwise.

No matter who's shoveling the bullshit.

Progress is people getting treated better. It's people getting more compassionate. Not less. It's people getting more understanding. Not less. It's the world getting better. Not worse.

No matter who bullshits otherwise.

We will be treating one another better. And more responsibility for that and the good things that come with it. Believe that.

Because that's what progress look like.

And this is what progress sounds like.

It's a beautiful future, ain't it?

Yeah, I know. Goddamn gorgeous.