Humanity is in progress

Humanity is very much in progress. We’ve only had scientific thinking for 400 years, industrial societies for 200 years, instant global communication for 20 years—of course we should expect to have all the problems we have today. As we solve those problems, new problems will come up.

Many of today’s problems exist because humanity as a species is still very nascent. We’ve only been writing for a few millennia, only been doing science for a few centuries, only been a global society for a few decades. Of course we don’t yet have good solutions for governance, coordination, wealth distribution, economic stability, justice, mental health, etc. We should expect to be having problems all the time, and we should expect to have to solve them.

Related: After material abundance comes intellectual and emotional abundance, There is no measure of progress in humanness