>>13373053This only works with loose definitions of progressive, and that's even if you let yourself fall into such a dichotomy. In some ways, hunter-gatheter tribes may have been much more "progressive" than most of modern society, and the agricultural revolution encouraged a huge, patriarchal shift towards structure and order away from (what is admittedly at least assumed to be) mostly egalitarianism and liberty.
I also fail to see how 10th century Britain is anymore "progressive" than when the Romans were there building aqueducts.
