Progressive and Regressive

More on clarifying why I like progressive. Firstly, to repeat, I like both the fact that it has a historical sense which means "very liberal"... but also that the natural language sense survives, which is very practical. To me this makes sense. The progressive mind can imagine a far ranging idealization, but also have pragmatism to compromise on those ideal vision in the here and now. Not only is it practical, but it's fair, because it takes other peoples ideas in to consideration, the people that disagree with the progressive. It is an act of humility that the progressive, me, doesn't really know what it's going to be like in 100 years or 1000 years or, indeed, what would actually be best. The whole thing is an excersize of visualization for the same old reasons: art, engineering, and philosophy.