non-spacetime dimensions
(ie parameters
variables
ranges-of-values)
are normally represented as
rainbow-spectrum colorings
we can call a coloring 'progressive'
if each rainbow-color
in chronological sequence
in some way dominates the graph
eg a human value-system
colors each turning
of each human branch
between good-red (or good-blue)
and evil-blue (or evil-red)
perhaps idealising
a long-past golden age
or a distant future utopia
or a gradual blundering groping
towards unreachable perfect
justice and truth
and in the present moment
some or all of those rainbow shades
are (microcosmically)
in active conflict
.