An Australian Republic

[Furunculus]

The very word "Progress" implies that you are moving towards something. Isn't that a goal worth exploring?

sure it is, but too many people mistake change for progress.

and progress itself is in the eye of the beholder.

and if you accept that change is not necessarily a good thing, and that the appreciation of progress is subjective, what does "explore" actually mean; an intellectual study of the new idea, or a wholesale gutting of extant institutions that already function very well in the hope that some new change/progress will be 'better'?