Poking holes in the progress narrative
When my partner had open heart surgery to repair a bad mitral valve, we were both incredibly grateful for the progress of medicine, from anaesthesia to the ability to keep his blood pumping while his heart was on the table.
I want to be able to go to the dentist and have pain injections before they drill.
I do believe we need to challenge the progress narrative that we are beholden to.
Do we really need all the gadgets and things? And at what price? Not just to people, but to planet?
When our Molochian system is based on the rapacious need for growth to stay viable, we must produce far more than we can ever need. The fast fashion company Shein pushes out 7000 new styles a day. Through the lens of Wall Street, it is doing fabulously well.
But our method of account is so flawed when we only consider one measure of value. How much money do we make?
Looking at human progress in most areas, I wonder how far we have come.
We still love to kill each other, and we do so now from control rooms thousands of kilometres from where we kill.
We still delight in seeking to eradicate whole communities that do not fit our image of superiority.
We are still dominated by men, with many of those in power in 2025 hell-bent on getting women out of leadership roles and back inside, away from the male gaze.
Our military-industrial complex is flourishing, producing ever more deadly weapons and propaganda control devices than ever known in human history.
And our coercive control machines, social media, keep us conquered by seeing us divided.
Our planet is broken, perhaps beyond repair, while humans remain in charge.
But progress!
It is past time we created new ways of accounting to be sure we cover everything.
In Syntropic World we have a tool called Synergistic Accounting – designed for all-in-accounting, so that nothing – the cost of Nature, the emotional and spiritual input, the cost to our future – is left off the balance sheet.
When we begin to see through the lens of the whole, the company Shein shows its truth. Not profitable at all. A blight on our future. A terrible monster that needs addictive behaviour to stay alive. If we factored in the all-in-cost to produce one of the 7000 items a day, very few people could afford one item.
Poking holes in the progress narrative is necessary. If…if…we want a world with a future.
Photo Taken March 6th, 2024, Article written January 5th, 2025.
