Over the past few months, as I have observed the cow-brained collective and their voracious appetite for uniformity attempting to stamp out all in its way, I began pondering the merits of what surely is an obscure hypothesis, that there has been almost no radical advancement in the realm of metaphysical science for more than half a century, with most of the real progressions ending around a century ago, and if the tyrannical idiocy of the masses has facilitated this decline.
It cannot be argued against that our understanding of many nuts and bolts of things we are already familiar with has surged (though, trudging through the stupidity of today, I sometimes doubt this too,) and though, preliminarily, this matches definiens of the word "progress," none of it appears very... for lack of a better term, "revolutionary." No longer does "human"ity seek to know for the purpose of knowing, now, increasingly, "human"ity seeks to know so alterations can be made for material benefit...
...a byproduct of, enabled and propagated by, technological, but not scientific, advancement.