People want to change the world. That doesn’t necessarily mean they will improve it. Given the chance to make progress, change or improve yourself, or anything else, which word would you choose?
I used to be an adherent to change. Change was good. It was different to whatever is now. But that may mean worse as well as better, from your perspective or from that of others.
Then I became an ardent fan of progress. Progress was better than change. It sounded like it was at least going in the best direction.
However, I am not sure things that seem like progress always are. Like change, it can seem good to some but can be at the expense of many others.
Knowing what we know now, many things that seemed like progress at the time, may not have turned out like that in the longer run.
Was the machine gun progress over a pistol? Was nuclear power progress? Industrialisation – was that progress? Ask people interested in the planet’s future.
We should aim to improve. Improving suggests making things better, for many. It encapsulates change and progress but also a broad reach that helps most people that are impacted by it. It’s not about a select few, or one political, religious or tribal view.
Progress, change or improve? Aim at improve.
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