What do the people you know think of prog?

I tell people Progressive music is like classical music with varied time signatures.  You either like it or hate it!!  I love it.  Most modern music bores me as it's so bland now!!

My family can't stand it for the most part, although that being said they're pretty hardcore Floyd fanatics so with some exposure to the right artists they'd probably find some of it suitable. Can't see them ever getting on board with prog in general, though...

Well, popular culture (in the developed world at least) is overwhelmingly anti-intellectual today, probably because most people nowadays work in offices rather than on the factory floor and have intellectually challenging jobs. Hardly surprising that after work, they go to the gym and not the library. If you have the head full of job-related concerns and feel tired of thinking about them all the time, you don't want to load your head with even more intellectual stuff. You want to do something different, so you go for athletic rather than intellectual pursuits in your leisure time. It tells a lot that the jobs people consider really cool are the few well-paid muscle jobs such as oilrigman.

This may be the reason why hipsters shun prog.