Your bias is defining all those things you listed as progress. For some those items are signs of a degenerate society that has lost its way. Your thinking is m

Your bias is defining all those things you listed as progress. For some those items are signs of a degenerate society that has lost its way. Your thinking is more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history#Social_evolutionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history#Social_ev... Than this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory