Pelevin on Myth and Progress

From the prologue to his Helmet of Horror book, far from his best, by the way.

"According to one definition, a myth is a traditional story, usually explaining some natural or social phenomenon. According to another, it is a widely held but false belief or idea.
If the mind is like a computer, perhaps myths are its shell programs: sets of rules that we follow in our world processing, mental matrices we project onto complex events to endow them with meaning...
Our programs were written when the human race was young – at a stage so remote and obscure that we don’t understand the programming language any more.
The road away from myth is called 'progress'...
Progress is a propulsion technique where we have to constantly push ourselves away from the point we occupied a moment ago.However the funny thing is that the concept of progress has been around for so long that now it has all the qualities of a myth. It is a traditional story that pretends to explain all natural and social phenomena. It is also a belief that is widespread and false."

The great iconoclast of intellectual systems, Krishnamurti, would I'm sure agree, with the emphasis on progress applied to the individual and his search for truth. The thinking mind trying to get to an ideal place which lies somewhere in the future, itself being the problem. Video here where he, perhaps contrary to some expectations, critiques phenomena like transcendental meditation along the lines of "nonsensical meditation". Who is trying to transcend who and why?