1/ Progress is a 3-way contest between has-beens, never-was-es and could-have-beens. When all grumpily accept each other, things get better.
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interesting, but this is posed (at least on my reading) as if an equilibrium between these 3 can be reached; not sure that there is one
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I definitely think that is the right way of thinking about it.
