Progress is natural. Water will make way from top to bottom - it is natural. Yes it may get stuck for sometime due to a bolder or rock but as the water accumulates it will find it's way down.
Human progress is natural, in fact that is the only natural culmination of human existence. There are many outlets from Religions to Science to Philosophy ... which more or less come to the conclusion that there is no real purpose of existence of Humans. Earth itself is going to have an end pretty soon (1000 years) as per Mr Stephen Hawking. But if you look at the data of the entire human existence you see that 'progressive values' 'liberalism' is the only natural common factor running through the entire human chain of events. Not to be confused with politics of 'Liberalism' which includes size and role of government, which is just suggested methods to achieve the means and is not the goal. Not to be confused with politics - look at it this way - every generation is more liberal than their predecessors, due to challenges they faced (and answers were - go liberal) not because earlier generation was not smart.
There was never a time in human history when new ideas did not pop up and were not resisted. Resistance is also natural for people who see new ideas with fear. In the end the new ideas are only way of survival. I remember in one of the old Mahabharata TV serial (1990s)- Bhishma (one of the main characters in the epic) says the entire reason of future coming into present and present going into past is - that the present cannot sustain anymore so it becomes past and future comes into present. If past was ever sustaining future would not be a concept and present will remain as is.
It can be argued that humans have not developed much as far as internal philosophy is concerned but no one can deny that the progress has happened continuously when it comes to social justice and broadening of human values.
Generally there are 2 sides to the human behavior beliefs, Conservative and Liberal, though generalizing it is tough and some issues may not have such clear distinctions. The fact that no way of living has been constant is proved by looking at what you believe versus what used to be believed by your parents or grand parents. Today's Conservative is a liberal in eyes of earlier generation. There is no generation which does not have a different way of living as compared to the past generations, mainly because of new challenges and knowledge. So conservative view point itself keeps evolving from liberal view point. Conservative view point is a losing cause because world keeps changing and reacts to newer liberal values said Steven Colbert once during an interview with Conservative TV host Bill O Reilly.
Both the sides though feel anger and frustration at change, liberals can't believe the slow pace of change and conservatives can't believe there is change at all.
In the end if you believe God is directing human life and we are being empowered to become better humans then it is easy to see that Liberalism is a cause of god and probably the only natural outcome of generations and generations of evolution. If you object to God and like to substitute it with 'Nature' or 'Science' or 'it' - it's your call, but the conclusion still remains that liberalism and conservatism are 2 parts of the same train, front end can't believe we are going slow and rear end can't believe the train is moving! The train has no destination but the journey is directed by the tracks of Liberalism and Progressive agenda.
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