The following is based on a very perceptive post by someone named John Moore, which I found through a link to a link on Dr. Sanity's grand rounds of the psychosphere today.

It looks as if it were hastily composed in a manic burst of inspiration, but it's so good, and so accurate, that it deserves wider dissemination. I've taken the liberty of cleaning it up, editing it a bit, adding a few things here and there, and putting it in the format of the DSM. However, most of the credit is due its perceptive author, the above-referenced John Moore.

I've also taken the additional liberty of altering the name of the condition, from his "Cognitive Disorder of Progressives" to "Progressive Personality Disorder." . . .