Why the World is Going Backwards — And How to Stop It

If the World Feels Like It’s Regressing, That’s Because It Is

Image Credit: Scott Barbour

All around this troubled globe, we’re seeing the rise of a phenomenon as strange as an ice-storm in a desert: the regressive revolution.

We’re used to seeing revolutions as the wheel of human progress only ever turning forwards. But revolutions, more precisely understood, can go either way: the wheel can move backwards, too. Ba…