>(Q. Given that the concept of "progress" first emerged
>during the enlightenment period, and was associated with the
>very common assumption that we were evolving toward our
>manifest destiny of a utopian society; and given that very
>few people today accept the notion of a pending utopian
>society--though the U.S. still has a foriegn and domestic
>policy based on manifest destiny--how can we know what is
>progress and what is regress and what is merely misdirected
>change without a shared vision of our goal?)
ARE WE THERE YET?!