John Seward at Just Opinions has an outstanding commentary that is near and dear to my belief system. You may have noticed that I tend to be a little hard on Progressives because of what I call their "adolescent utopianism" - truth be told I sympathize somewhat, but I escaped adolescence and am willing to settle for improvement knowng that perfection cannot be achieved by imperfect humans. The article does point out that Utopians have lead the charge for improvement in our society and that anti-utopianism has its pitfalls, but it also must be recognized that there is inherent danger in pure utopianism - something I have never taken the time to analyze and pin down. Now I don't have to. John appears to be one of those rare bloggers that puts a lot of thought into about every post instead of just linking to the meme of the day and posting a snarky comment (ed. - like some lazy cowboys we know? Shut up) Read the whole thing and think about it.