Tomorrow everything will be better: This slogan has been recognized since the Enlightenment by supporters of social progress, while those of darkness bark that everything was better in the past. Some rely on science and technology to increase freedom, prosperity, education, and beauty, while others depend on tradition, blood, soil, family, homeland, and other ancestral relics to prevent things from getting worse than they already are. This book asserts that every time, every action, and every thought actually contains more possibilities for self-improvement than one might see at first glance. The inner connection of these hidden degrees of freedom is referred to in the book as "Implex." This term describes a model that can explain how progress is realized in the efforts of actual people. It clarifies why only epochs that embrace certain misconceptions...