Those Progressives

“(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)”

I have never professed or thought myself to be the brightest kid on the block. But I do confess inheriting some of my dear mother’s Kentucky, common horse sense, as she would put it. She used many such aphorisms, one of which was, “Child, they don’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain.” I think this is especially applicable to today’s pseudo-intellectual society.

Whether it is politics, business, education, or religion, one of their most popular catch words is, progressive. It has even come to be associated with a movement. I’ve come to the conclusion after hearing some of them, they’re like the philosophers on Mars Hill, they’re only interested in things that are new.

Under the guise of moving forward they leave behind them discarded treasures of immense value.   

I think G.K Chesterton said it best, “Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. Even when we improve we never progress. For progress, the metaphor from the road, implies a man leaving his home behind him: but improvement means a man exalting the towers or extending the gardens of his home.”