Student Magazine at Wilfrid Laurier University

Articles by Jen Holden

Progress: A Story With a Sad Ending

Progress: A Story With a Sad Ending

We live in a world that is advancing at rates that are hard to comprehend with the human brain, yet the notion of progress is one we have all come to accept as, well, progressive (a.k.a. a good thing). If we aren’t moving forwards then where else is there to go but backwards? It is common sense to try to improve the situations in which we find ourselves in, but where does this perpetual movement through space and time lead us, and is there enough space for all 6 billion of us to progress?