Progress Under Threat
Progress seems so slow sometimes.
In Angels in America — a play in two parts, by Tony Kushner —one of the characters, Prior Walter, explains, powerfully, in a call for Queer liberation and equality, that progress is inevitable.
People will always keep fighting for a better world:
Sometimes, it feels like the progress we make is constantly under threat.
Personal progress. Social progress. Creative progress. Practical progress.
It’s all so hard, sometimes. The world seems to push back.
Perhaps it’s the natural result of creation and existence in a universe that favours entropy and chaos. The passage of time tends towards decay.
But still.
We continue. We proceed. We fight good fights and sleep exhausted sleeps.
Because the world only spins forward. And we all matter.