Soft Rains: Can Progress Be Made Without Conflict?

Can Progress Be Made Without Conflict? The great Buddha once said, “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” Many people believe the same concept applies to progress. Plug the word progress into that sentence and much like a math problem, it still makes sense. That is unless you suck at math. Although even then, it's still easy to understand that the answer to the titled question is no. No progress cannot be made without conflict.In Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” the conflict of the story is that of the house. The house is personified with woeful words. It's lonely, doing it's robotic jobs for a family that no longer lives there. Actually no families live anywhere, not anymore. The Progression