The shortest books thread response of "'200 Years of Progressive Thinking' by the State of Mississippi" (quoted from memory) caused me to ask myself "What is progressive thinking?" The short answer is "I don't know."

So, forum, what is progressive thinking? I'm well aware that I could query wikipedia or google, but I'm interested in non-academic responses even from the people who hate CBID advice seekers.

Progressive thinking when it is happening usually leads to imprisonment or death or other such fates

i.e. Galileo (sp), Nelson Mandela, Socrates, etc

Okay. So there is usually punishment for progressive thinking, and that punishment is often death.

Maybe I should have asked a more specific question. What is progressive thinking in the 21st century? What is progressive thinking in 21st century America? Is it different than progressive thinking in the 20th century? The 13th century?

Wanting to perform weird, unnatural acts on the chick in the Progressive commercial.

My impression is that progressive thinking might mean exactly what it sounds like....making decisions with the goal of overall progress.

Maybe this sounds like a great idea (Yeah Progress)......but real progress, the kind that doesn't flash inthe pan, takes real sacrifice.....and is bound to fail in the short term, but hopefully "eventually" materialize.

"Progressive Thinking" (by my definition) has closed down factories, caused people to lose their jobs, driven industry and agriculture away, etc.....but in a historical sense, what seems like reverse progress can contribute to ultimate progress in decades to come.

I'd say that abolition was progressive thinking, as was conservation of resources.

If you told a plantation owner in Georgia that he could no longer use slave labor and he could not longer dump the waste from his operations into the river it would be construed as impeding progress........but we now know that these sorts of things contributed to positive advancement of environmental responsibility and social/civil equality.

Of course....I could be all wrong.

Anybody who listens to Nancy Pelosi is "progressive"...

C

#4: "Wanting to perform weird, unnatural acts on the chick in the Progressive commercial."

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Now that's just SICK.

And there is no way to unimagine that picture now.

Thanks a lot.

My 8 YO son is a progressive thinker. He was wearing his underwear on his head yesterday. That's progressive thinking. He was also singing some silly song that he made up on the spot. Funny as hell but a little embarrassing. I finally told him that he needed to stop.

Not a bad idea though, she looks like she has nice boobs.

Charlie

Progressive does not automatically mean "liberal".

The welfare system is a liberal system. To me, a progressive approach to it would be to require a recipient to earn that money in some way. They MUST make progress (there's that word again) towards getting off the gubment dole.

Another progressive idea is that marijuana has medicinal value and that people who smoke it or no more criminal than a cigar smoker.

A non progressive way of thought is "This is the way we've always done it and it works great!"

I HATE THAT guy at work

AND..it means sticking my *edited by moderator* up the Progressive Girl's *edited by moderator*

In today's Poilitics Progressive means control.

wheel,

Progressive Thinking...

The ability to get past "The way it's always been done"

It's hardly a unique definition, but a thought process that's rarely seen in action.

The current definition of progrssive in american politics is socialism.

Liberal Progressive thinking means loving someone elses money and not paying taxes.

#8 Buckwheat

What a coincadink

Obama is a progressive thinker. He was wearing his underwear on his head yesterday. That’s progressive thinking. He was also singing some silly song that he made up on the spot. Funny as hell but a little embarrassing. I finally told him that he needed to stop.

Ron

Now you guys are starting to scare me.

It all depends on what you call progress.

Humans behavior breaks down into essentuially three categories:

1) People who thibnk their new idea has never been tried before, despite thousands of years of human existence.

2) People who know better than to do something as stupid as to assume that after thousands of years of human existence, such "progressive" ideas haven't already been tried and failed.

3) People who don't care, and would rather get drunk, smoke cigars, and play poker.

(P.S. - I'm officially drunk posting.)

By the way, what passes as "progressive thought" these days is actually a sham. The last progressives in this country died after after the American Revolution, and before the Civil War.

Progressive?

Man... if you want an answer that will make sense, I'd need to sit down and smoke a joint or two... 20 years ago.

Back then, when I was high... I HAD the answers. ALL of them.

I still have them. But they're locked away. Waiting for Marijuana to be legalized.

Oh, wait... that'd be progressive, wouldn't it? NOT allowing people of one mind to control people of another mind...

Hmmmm...

Lets see... lets stop giving benefits to illegal immigrants who haven't earned them. Progress!

Lets do what is necessary to STOP the flow of illegal immigration. Progress!

Lets stop spending money to keep people on death row alive. Progress!

Lets stop all litigation for douchebags who admit to their crime. They admitted it. Innocent people do NOT admit to crimes they didn't commit. F*** the lawyers and their money grubbing bull****. The f***er is guilty. Hang him. Progress!

Lets walk backwards just a few years and get back to JUSTICE, instead of what passes for it today.

PROGRESS!