If we are to advance, we are not only to banter, but also to
come to conclusions, as tentative as they may be. Many of the
ideas explored at The Neoprogressive are interconnected, and
cumulative. This page will be updated and periodically with the
theses, maxims, and aphorisms that capture the key concepts and
strategies discussed throughout the website.   Information,
knowledge, enlightenment  The first argument to be advanced is
that the latest explosion of information technology in the past
few decades has caused a concomitant erosion is the distinctions
between information, knowledge and enlightenment. Today, the
confluence of near-universal high-speed Internet access and what
could be called the approaching ubiquity of screens (information
technology using screens in every room, on every body) is
accompanied by the fetishization of information. Access to and
management of information is governed by its own inexorable
logic, which holds that more information invariably improves
every situation. Informatio