I realize that people from many cultures come to this site,though mostly English speaking. I watched a BBC report about a 3rd country and wondered:
How important is a sense of progress in your culture - and in the "truth"?
Progress is a fairly recent concept if you consider how many centuries have passed while people lived in traditional cultures. You get born, suffer thru life, have kids and die while traditional religion dominates. That's just the way it is (or was)
Fast forward to the present and expectations change. Why isn't the economy growing? Unemployment? Injustice? Where's that cure for cancer? We can go to the moon but we can't (fill in the blank).
As American movies have been sometimes derided for usually 'having a happy ending' (by Europeans) I think this emphasis on 'progress' (however real) is mostly a part of US cultural influence.
Anyway, it seems to me that entire governments - or religions (that got started in the US) could fall if their constituents don't feel that 'progress' is happening.
The Organization better keep hauling in the broke and sick as publishers. Other signs of 'progress' might be hard to find.
metatron