By what standard can progress be measured?
What's progressive to me might be regressive to you, or vice versa. How, then, can an entity (such as a certain web-based weblog community) attempt to regulate progressiveness, or require something to be progressive? The interpretations of progress are limitless. To force your own concept of progress onto someone else, or to require "progressive" conformity in any public or private discourse on progress, is inherently not progressive. Maybe progressivism is recognizing that true, universal, absolute progress does not exist.
Some call advancing out of the present and into some glorious future progressive. According to these people, is progress just the ticking of a clock, then? Or the ponderous grind of the passing eons? Who is anyone to say that we are not, in fact, regressing, towards the dissolution of society and civilization, towards anarchy, in the name of progressivism and individualism? Who decreed that concept to be progressive?
I, like everyone else here, claim to "blog for progress." Sounds quite heroic. But how can we act in the name of progress when we don't even know what it is, or when it holds totally differing meanings for different people?
Perhaps progress is anything that “favorably” alters the status quo. But I reiterate: when you tip that status quo in the name of progress for one person, another suffers regression. "Progress" is relative.
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The site defines progress as "Better future, Broad prosperity, shared responsibility, personal freedom, and responsible government." By that definition, anything could be progressive. But that's the beauty of it! The site gets people talking, which means they are thinking, and instead of ruminating about their own ideas, they are considering TONS of viewpoints. That may not get anything done in the moment, but it could spark someone to action.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman