The legacy of the Enlightenment is that we can find meaning and value grounded in truth and earthly reality. If we are lacking happiness and meaning, we have the tools now to seek it.
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Define "progress"
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Has Andrew Sullivan never imagined that philosophy and fiction (which last may include mathematics on certain accounts; what Gian-Carlo Rota called the only true religion, not that he was a fictionalist) can replace all religion, i.e. the need to believe w/out enough evidence?
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Many have yet to do that. But we couldn't even begin to tackle that problem until the basic physical needs and necessities are resolved first. So progress has simply made it possible for people to begin to find a deeper satisfaction in life.
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It's not. Progress has dealt with the most fundamental aspects of existence, physical needs. People who are still miserable had a misguided view that the removal of physical suffering would be enough. What people now have to do is find a way to make their own lives have meaning.
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Sullivan makes a common error. Back when physical suffering was much more common, the idea of removing it as a path to happiness was obvious. Now, as much of it has been removed, Paradise did not follow => progress is a sham.
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