Progress always means change, but change doesn’t always mean progress. ………….. Looking at things with hindsight, “Smoky the Bear” gets horns as well as “Mr. Clean” who gets horns also. ………. Kids were consistently told by Smoky the Bear: “Kids, only you can prevent forest fires, but the prevention of forest fires and the ability to control forest fires that had started, caused the tremendous growth of underbrush which caused super-forest fires. …… And I just read a news post that people who clean their living quarters spotlessly clean upsets the balance somehow and increases their chances of getting ill. I could go on and on about this listing one thing after another.



Progress is one thing, but when the fantasized consciousness takes hold of ideas related to progress, at best it is no more than plowing the sea. Those who become fanatics about progress, set their hope in progress, but in doing so they must explain the existence of evil or human corruption in some way. They often become overly simplistic in their understanding of evil or human corruption and because of their self-created blind spots shift their understanding of the causes of these blockages to what they consider to be progress to where they should not be. …… The upshot of this argument is that it is the fanaticized consciousness that is the enemy more so than either Progress or tradition.