One comedian’s arguments against what we were taught to believe.

To the chickens of true progress, I beg of you, come home and roost! Roost, you bastards, roost! Your cause has been cursed!

Progress. Not since the terms “literally” and “ironic” has a word been so blatantly bastardized in the American discourse. And it’s no wonder. Any time we start throwing a word around with such habitual carelessness, its true meaning will eventually be abandoned.

Progress, originally defined as literal or figurative forward movement, enlightenment, prosperity, and goal-obtaining growth, has now been reduced to represent an individual’s championing of their own interests and mind-set, meant to benefit themselves and their contemporaries and lay waste to the cares and concerns... Read More