Rational self interest says that individually, every person will desire to do what they view as best for them.
In aggregate (as a society) that sum isn’t necessarily good for the group.
Nor other individuals within the group.
That continuous striving by individuals (often times working cooperatively) is what “you” view as progressivism.
It is aggregate self interest.
Others might just view it more generically as “change”.
Adam Smith described it as “the invisible hand”.


Not that it matters, but I view it all as a big Rugby scrum, with a whole bunch of muscle pushing the mass all over the place, for eternity.
There is no stasis.
Sometimes it squishes in a direction I find favorable, other times not.

Just have to keep my pot of beans full in the face of it.

Out there doing it best I can.