Potential. Maturity. Growth. Self-actualization. These words constitute the progress that all functioning adults supposedly make as they improve themselves. The desire to feel “finished” is so strong, an entire $10 billion industry has popped up to serve it. And yet the progressivist model of self-improvement suffers from the same flaws as the progressivist model of evolution — or anything: it relies upon shifting…
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