Reading Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and part 2, "Political Order and Political Decay" is a really good sweep on political progress where it come

Reading Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" and part 2, "Political Order and Political Decay" is a really good sweep on political progress where it comes from and whether or not it's inevitable (hint: it's not). Fukuyama is a real realist. What I mean by that is that he doesn't deny that progress has occurred (something some people believe), but he points out how precarious that progress is and that it can go away (something some people deny). I don't understand why it's a controversial statement to say that progress isn't inevitable and that decay can sometimes happen, but for some reason it is. I think his books, among many other things, are useful for grasping that progress takes hard work and can, like anything in this world, be ruined by laziness, corruption, or simple accidental misfortune.