How do you usually think about progress in relation to human society?
How do you usually think about progress in relation to land?
How do you usually think about progress in relation to buildings?
How do you usually think about progress in relation to investments?
How do you usually think about adaption, simplicity, complexity and inevitability in relation to progress, and disasters?
How do you know when stability is more important than progress, in various situations?
How do you define progress?
Perhaps you do so in terms of physical and/or metaphorical and/or financial journeys.
How do you know whether a claimed advancement is actually an advancement in reality?
Perhaps you define progress mainly in terms of goals to be reached.
What are your goals in relation to your current experiences, here in Frugality Cottage?
How do you know your goals are adequately related to one another?
How do you compare ideas about progress, and for what reasons?
What do you know about modernisation?
What do you know about tradition?
What do you know about hope?
What do you know about truth?
What do you know about greed?
Do you usually associate progress with peace, including inner peace, or with the accumulation of personal wealth and a higher social status?
Do you usually associate progress with competition or co-operation?
Do you usually associate claims of progress with boasting and other forms of self-promotion?
Do you associate improvements in the human condition with perennial wisdom and/or with the politics of progressivism?
Do you misguidedly associate improvements in politics with misconceptions?
Do you associate claims of inferiority and superiority with discredited theories concerning a great chain of being?
Have you discovered much about progress from the history of art?
Have you discovered much about progress from the history of politics?
Have you discovered much about progress from the history of philosophy?
Have you discovered much about how and why corruption prevents societal improvements?
Have you discovered much about how and why a simple, healthy, non-corrupt, intelligently frugal way of life can easily support the development and maintenance of consistently peaceful, comfortably prosperous, elegantly egalitarian communities?
You may be aware that resolving conflicts in a sustainable way can only occur when fairness is adequately perceived by all sides.
What, if any, is the purpose of human intelligence in relation to societal progress, and from whose point of view?
What do you know about the ways in which intelligence affects health?
What do you know about the causes and consequences of psychological abuse and psychological trauma?
What do you know for certain about human nature in relation to human progress, and how do you know it?
What do you know about work in relation to human progress?
What do you know about leisure in relation to human progress?
How do you assess and compare the standard of living and quality of life of individuals at different stages across the lifespan?
How do you assess experiences of social privilege and social disadvantage?
How do you assess progress in relation to the continuing prevalence of social inequality and wealth disparities?
What do you know about behavioural modernity?
What do you know about political authority?
What do you know about moral authority?
What, if anything, does moral character have to do with societal progress?
What do you know about philanthropy in relation to progress, and moral character?
Through each note for you in the library of Frugality Cottage,
The Author invites you to consider ways to improve your philanthropic
practices.
Much can also be discovered elsewhere in that regard, of course.
While advanced intellectual skills are necessary prerequisites for quaternary experiences, acquiring advanced knowledge of philosophical possibilities is also advisable. That includes a highly developed awareness of ethics, aesthetics, logic, epistemology, metaphysics and political improvement.
How do you compare Renaissance triumphal processions with Roman ones?
How do you reflect upon the right to privacy and compare it with the privilege of desired publicity?
Perhaps you think it is possible to improve societies without doing so.
How have you attempted to understand the information revolution of late modernity?
How do you attempt to understand the tension between entertainment and austerity?
How do you attempt to address the tension between, and confusion about, clean information and polluted information?
How do you attempt to learn from history about tension and relaxation?
How do you encourage the healthy enjoyment of life?
How do you encourage respectable practices?
Frugality Cottage is open to the ordinary public for the serious study of progress.
Do you associate sustainability with progress?
Do you associate reasonableness with progress?
There is much to consider when seeking to improve community life, in any part of the world.
Do you associate progress with enlightened thinking?
Do you associate progress with whig history?
Do you associate progress with cleanliness in its various forms?
Are you here mainly as an ordinary person or as a relatively well-informed tourist or as a thoughtful journalist or as a suitably advanced student or as an appropriately registered patron?
What, if anything, makes the present worse than the past, and for whom?
How do you interpret the past?
How do you interpret the present?
How do you interpret the future?
How do you compare medieval allegories with 20th century allegories?
How do you compare democratisation with liberalisation and corruption?
What, if anything, do you consider to be indicative of global progress?
How do you distinguish between real communities and imagined communities?
How do you usually think about community spirit?
How do you usually think about local democracies?
How do you usually think about local communities?
How do you usually think about private matters?
How do you usually think about community and its etymology?
How do you usually think about public matters?What do you know about bullying, by individuals and by groups?
What do you know about collective narcissism?
How do you tell the difference between a mental disorder and a normal response to overwhelming suffering?
Whose measurements of progress, and suffering, receive most societal and political acknowledgement, and why?
What do you know about intersectionality in relation to progress and suffering?
Do you define progress mainly in terms of the alleviation of suffering or the accumulation of wealth?
Does the fair the rule of law under a quality constitution provide the only real basis of justice and progress in any society?
Perhaps you do not consider a virtual cottage to be a suitable location for the examination of constitutional law and various rights and responsibilities.
Perhaps you believe life is too short for anything but the unthinking indulgence of your whims and appetites.
Perhaps you are feeling too traumatised and exhausted to think about anything particularly deeply.
Perhaps you spend most of your time feeling frightened.
How, if at all, have you attempted to contribute to local progress, and in which part(s) if the world?
How have you assessed your motives in relation to your ideas about progress?
How do your motives relation to the past, present and future?
How, if at all, have you attempted to overcome infatuation, obsession, lust and other extreme feelings?
What do you know about fans?
Perhaps you associate progress with upholding virtues and preventing vices.
Perhaps you would rather discuss progress in a grand palace somewhere or in a bland office block.
What do the arts teach you about progress?
What do art collections teach you about progress, and excess?
What do cottages, and their occupants, teach you about moderation?
If you have been investing time in the little library here, why have you been doing so?
Do you usually associate libraries with progress?
Do you associate the Internet with progress?
Do you associate the Adelaidezone with progress?
Have you progressed to the quaternary level of education yet or are you still waiting for the opportunity to do so?
Perhaps you are not yet aware that such experiences take place in the EverTime.
Perhaps you equate eternity with the EverTime.
Personal and interpersonal progress is possible through the EverTime.
Do you believe progress is possible within and/or through eternity?
Do you believe progress is possible through intelligent frugality?