Maybe My Idea Of Progress Must Be Antiquated

It doesn't matter. Right, left, center, off-center - whatever.

The idea of the individual capable of achieving great things - a just society for example - is all but dead. As I've written many times here, all I see is the advocation of bigger government.

This is someone's idea of "progress" now.

Whenever I hear people telling me to be "progressive" I think of a mobster shoving the face of an innocent shop owner into the stove threatening him to pay protection for his own good.

Maybe I'm dumb and need a good socialist spanking but I just don't see the progress in this. Is there a Progressive IQ test I can take?

Progress is a tricky concept. For example, is the mainstreaming of porn part of the progressive movement? Or is it mainstreamed because of moral indifference? Are we confused as to what is right and wrong now? Have people who know the difference been substituted by some who have sipped from the Fountain of Progress? Didn't the Soviets consider itself to be "progressive?" Is progress a relative term?

Most politicians today, possibly unwittingly, are anti-individual. They don't believe in the spirit of the individual in its ability to progress. They only believe in their own conceptualization of what constitutes progress.

Big government is another way of saying, "we give up. We're plump out of ideas. So...ta-dah!"

Sips latte, inhales doobie. Feels better. Passes the accountability buck. Who cares? It's all free.