Is it Happy to Abandon Progressivism in Life?

• Continuation: Is it happiness to affirm the current situation and aim for gradual progress?

• It seems that there is progressivism in life.

  • It’s like constantly running in life and pursuing one’s own progress in some kind of evaluation axis.

• This is a situation where the means of happiness, “progress,” has become an end in itself.

  • The Pain of Turning Happiness Means into Ends

• I have a question/feeling that if we can abandon this notion, Knowing What is Enough, it might lead to a happier life.

• However, I don’t know how to abandon it.

  • It seems difficult as long as we are immersed in a society that values progress, unless we completely withdraw and become reclusive.
  • Since I belong to a community that shares the same ideology/belief, it would also be a hurdle to leave this ideology and detach from the community.
    • Oh, this is what [/tkgshn/ “Hell Stoic Village”] refers to as a “village” in their article..?
      • It’s important to be able to leave (tkgshn).

• Well, maybe we don’t have to abandon everything.

  • It might be enough to recognize that progress is not the goal but the means.
  • And then, control the mode of progressivism and non-progressivism within ourselves.
    • Treating “Means as Ends” as a Means, that’s the idea.
      • It would be good to have the idea of controlling/utilizing the “progressivism mode” as a means to achieve happiness that can only be obtained through progress.
    • The ability to control this ON/OFF mode seems really important (blu3mo)(blu3mo).
      • If you only associate with stoic communities, you won’t be able to turn off the “progressivism mode.”
      • Well, that’s true, assuming you have hobbies and such (tkgshn).
  • I think this is everything (tkgshn).
    • Aligning one’s goals (short-term or long-term) with the incentives of the environment is extremely important. If this alignment is off, there will be no progress.
    • For me, as an entrepreneur, this is the aspect I am most conscious of as techne.
      • Ah, I see (blu3mo).

• Along with this, there is also a different point of discussion about how internal motivation ends up being mixed with external evaluation.

  • Whether progress is chosen voluntarily or imposed by something else.

• It seems similar to [/tkgshn/ “Hell Stoic Village”].

  • Of course, it’s too obvious to say that progress does not equal happiness, so the original page does not mention it (tkgshn).

• Personally, it seems related to Technology as a Means of Religious-Like Happiness.

  • There might be something in common between the belief in progressivism about the world (Technology as a Means of Religious-Like Happiness) and the belief in progressivism about individuals (this page).
  • (I’m not sure about the original definition, but I’m referring to faith as an unsupported support)