1) Yes, very much so. The rise of a civilization is a successional process -- that was one of the central points of my 2005 paper on the collapse of civilizations -- and during the rising part of the curve, it's quite common for people in the civilization to convince themselves that it's all upwards from here. Then they find out the hard way that what goes up must come down -- a lesson we're learning now.
2) She's barking up the wrong stump. It's very fashionable to confuse evolution with progress and then to insist that we all ought to join together to progress as fast as possible -- it's a rehash of Marxist rhetoric in a New Age vein. Bleah.
3) I've been a fan of RAW's work since I bought the Illuminatus! trilogy in the late 1970s. That doesn't mean that I agree with all the things he believed, but I'm enough of a Discordian to find that entertaining rather than annoying. You might find this old post of mine interesting:
Re: Evolution - progress
2) She's barking up the wrong stump. It's very fashionable to confuse evolution with progress and then to insist that we all ought to join together to progress as fast as possible -- it's a rehash of Marxist rhetoric in a New Age vein. Bleah.
3) I've been a fan of RAW's work since I bought the Illuminatus! trilogy in the late 1970s. That doesn't mean that I agree with all the things he believed, but I'm enough of a Discordian to find that entertaining rather than annoying. You might find this old post of mine interesting:
https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2016/12/the-fifth-side-of-triangle.html
Or this more recent one:
https://www.ecosophia.net/slack-an-irreverent-proposal/