Execrable

\EK-sih-kruh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Deserving to be execrated; detestable; abominable.
2. Extremely bad; of very poor quality; very inferior.

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Written during our last class:

I see progress--however, minimal, it seems to me that history can be tracked as a social and realist evolution. Progressing in stages with Cambrian Explosions here and there, we cannot ignore the difference between our compassion-idealizing, fairness (at least in spirit)-emphasizing ideologies, nor our current predilection for democratic representation and social structure. Compared to the state of things thousands of years ago—were there was almost no emphasis or concern for the individual, a string of monarchies that appeased or controlled rather than respected its people, and a rampant misunderstanding of the universe and common superstition, it seems to me clear that even minimally, maturity of the mind, compassion and community has occurred. Not only that, but we might extrapolate for its past direction a future one.

This movement proves how stubborn we are to change, but in my opinion inspires nothing but hope—as, while lethargic, entire communities can move toward mutually beneficial structures, and billions of minds can, in mean consideration, average out to more mature and correct understandings, even if those understandings depend on a more vigorous few.

It is not merely an increase of people causing this evolution—I think that with enough time and juxtaposition to other humans, the maturity is inevitable. In diversity we find collective betterment of social, emotional and intellectual needs, just as diversity aids in evolution. Evolution does not work the same in both fields, but corollaries can be found. I need look into more evidence for this seeming progress—its cause especially, so that I’m not overlooking negative progress to undermine or contradict the positive—but it seems to me, for all our equally disturbing vices, the changes in society, realism and which virtues receive emphasis that we have, across history, been moving in broadly the right direction. But maybe I’m just appreciating the world since modern science, and how it differs from almost everything before it.