A
Humane Metric for Progress
“Civilization is the management of
pain” is not a cynical view—it’s a deeply human one. It acknowledges suffering
as part of life and recognizes our greatest achievements not in avoiding it altogether,
but in building structures that help us endure it, learn from it, and sometimes
even transcend it.
Progress, then, should not be
measured by wealth or power alone, but by how well we care for the wounded,
listen to the unheard, and ease the burdens of those too often forgotten.
In that light, the most civilized
among us may not be those who feel the least pain—but those who strive the most
to ease it in others.
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