[projektir]

I'd say that passage says a lot more things than that, and I'm responding to them. It's part of the fairly resilient narrative of "it was better before" that I think is extremely not true. In my view, it is also nonetheless still not good enough, so I don't want it to "stop", depending on what you are defining as "it" here.

Most problems we currently face are not a result of civilization itself. Count of laws or roads doesn't seem very material to me. Adding value treadmills just indicate some failure points of capitalism. But everything else we had before was even worse.

What is the purpose of this exposition? We have many problems to fix, but none of them will get fixed by going backwards.