Do you know, I agree with your point of view but not full. I think that all sides to human life make progress because of the culture-changing with time. Everything around us changing: doing new technological discoveries, culturally and moral changing. The last time, women don't wear opened clothes but now it isn't so. You think that it's a step to down into decay but I think that it's progress. The question is how to relate to these changes.

Sorry for my English I'm not a native speaker.

I think that progress is when you don't stop in the one place and do yourself better and better every day.