How Do We Measure Progress

progress is a complicated thing to measure. In one sense progress could be an industrial global power, but the whole situation of the country is in turmoil. In other case the county could be in a peaceful situation however there are no technological advancement that have occur. I believe it is impossible to evaluate progress of a country looking it at a present moment. Progress of a country is evaluated through time and in the future as we look back to how we developed. For example, i believe the reign of Mao with his great leap at the moment was considered as progress, a leap to the future. However it wasn't into the future where they look back to discover that they have fallen back immensely as their society was incredibly behind culturally with the destruction of their history.