And if you aren’t a fully realized human, it’s either because there’s some injustice in the environment (an inefficiency), a flaw in your will to improve (another inefficiency), or some natural/biological hinderance (also an inefficiency!). But society is self-correcting: collectively, we are purging the injustices, improving ourselves, and overcoming the burdens of the natural world—a process we call “Progress.” Our hope in Progress lets us overlook the brokenness of society.
