Yes, the "social contract" is a very vague term indeed, & has been applied in bad ways in the past. Here, I'm applying that there is social give & take & expec

Yes, the "social contract" is a very vague term indeed, & has been applied in bad ways in the past. Here, I'm applying that there is social give & take & expectations/norms throughout our society. Yes, any social norm/contract/expectation is, by definition, constraining/conservative & thus counter to any progress/disruption. These are not absolutes, as any difficult moral argument is usually balancing competing, legitimate concerns. We do have an American social "contract" that is eroding: Things like "If you're born poor, and good in school, study hard, work hard your whole life, stay clean, then you have a great chance of getting out of poverty".