Progressive Values Stories: More Creative Progressive Metaphors

We’re leaning to equality and the type of language would be an example of a flat land, or something that is very even, where beliefs are pretty much the same, there’s no sense that everybody is equal or not.  We are unique individuals, but at the same time, being able to understand that even though this person talks different or has a different personality or looks different, that on the inside they’re the same.  They have a heart, a liver, just like us.

Phil Specht  -   Wild Native Prairie

my metaphor for progressives is a wild native prairie with dozens of symbiotic interwoven relationships that define diversity while demanding inclusion; with recognition that the strength is hidden from view but the wholeness and beauty is not, all for one and one for all

Edwin Rutsch  - a Progressive Spaniel versus Conservative Ostrich

for me, Progressive Values are like a spaniel on the hunt.  Jumping through the fields, sniffing, searching, full of energy. Spaniels have an openness, exploration and friendliness to them.  Always looking for the next  new find, adventure and  idea. One of the most important progressive values to me it Seeking, that's the ongoing open-minded exploration and discovery of the world around us and searching for how to make things better.

Conservative Values are like the Ostrich with it's head in the sand. It's the opposite of the searching, instead it's being fearful and hiding from reality.  Someone told me, conservatives values start with the idea and try to fix the facts to fit them.  (For example the Failure of the occupation of Iraq.)  Hence the Failed Conservative Values of fear, dogma and close-mindedness.

"Metaphor gives light and strength to description." John Brent

 Can you create a metaphor for what Progressive Values are like and another one for what Conservative Values are like?  Describe and explain your metaphor. How do the images relate to the values?

For more Progressive Values Stories:

Edwin Rutsch
What Are Progressive Values? Documentary Project
http://ProgressiveSpirit.com 
and Study Group
http://www.dfalink.com/group.php?id=2285 

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