OAS Dossier 2: The New Pantheon Office of Applied Strategy

Partial Excerpts (antilibrary)

Introduction

Progress is one of humanity's most enduring yet contested ideas. Do human societies always improve over time.

In our inaugural research dossier, published Inst year, we considered the implications of a world that mistakes optimization for progress in our systems of cultural production, distribution, and consumption

For our sophomore entry, we consider the nature of progress itself.

In 2025, the world sits ever more precariously on the precipice of doom

Today, many of us recognize that commercial growth and technological innovation do not inherently constitute progress, however we may define it.