Me, I'm a simple man, I desire what I think my neighbors have and I desire to think, only as my neighbors do. I will happily go to my grave this way, so long as I'm not forced to change by events outside of my control.
Well not exactly, but I do understand the desire to "fit in", I've just never been very good at it, which is about all life amounts to for so many people, fitting in that is. By the way, I think it's perfectly fine and even healthy that the vast majority of people behave this way. It's always been a rare individual who moves the ball in any field. You need very few thought leaders, if the herd desperately believes it needs to change directions.
I think the problem we have today is that the ball is moving in the wrong direction, the few real "thought leaders" are either unheard, unheeded or demeaned. Wrong headed ideas flourish, while older more evolved ideas are being swept away and sadly, not for fresher newer ideas, that move us forward, as it should be.
Our "progressives" are clearly "regressive", their gods are old gods.
In the world of business it's an extremely rare business that can stand still, we either grow our business or the business decays. It's true for almost everything else as well. Organisms don't just grow larger, they grow old and die, they decay and crumble.
The West seems to have been trying to avoid any form of spiritual or intellectual growth, the concept itself is seen as Passe, we are all too smart to learn anything new.
This belief, that we have it all figured out, has led to stagnation and stagnation eventually leads to decline. Personally I assume this is just what happens when we become too content and have things too easy, we aren't forced to work harder to make it better, not when it's good enough as it is.
Invention, whether that's a physical or logical invention, is the child of necessity after all.
People are capable of growth, we will rarely do it, unless we absolutely have to and it's a rare person who really feels comfortable thinking outside of the box . On top of that, nobody wants to hear someone who thinks outside of the box, not unless they have a problem they desperately need fixed.
We aren't yet desperate enough to grow, but that could change in the blink of an eye.
> Our "progressives" are clearly "regressive", their gods are old gods.
The old gods never left. Some of us have decided not to worship them, neither by their old names nor by the new names folks come up with for them. It'd be good to have more genuine apostates: People who reject the category of Government, not merely their least favorite instances of it.
Me, I'm a simple man, I desire what I think my neighbors have and I desire to think, only as my neighbors do. I will happily go to my grave this way, so long as I'm not forced to change by events outside of my control.
Well not exactly, but I do understand the desire to "fit in", I've just never been very good at it, which is about all life amounts to for so many people, fitting in that is. By the way, I think it's perfectly fine and even healthy that the vast majority of people behave this way. It's always been a rare individual who moves the ball in any field. You need very few thought leaders, if the herd desperately believes it needs to change directions.
I think the problem we have today is that the ball is moving in the wrong direction, the few real "thought leaders" are either unheard, unheeded or demeaned. Wrong headed ideas flourish, while older more evolved ideas are being swept away and sadly, not for fresher newer ideas, that move us forward, as it should be.
Our "progressives" are clearly "regressive", their gods are old gods.
In the world of business it's an extremely rare business that can stand still, we either grow our business or the business decays. It's true for almost everything else as well. Organisms don't just grow larger, they grow old and die, they decay and crumble.
The West seems to have been trying to avoid any form of spiritual or intellectual growth, the concept itself is seen as Passe, we are all too smart to learn anything new.
This belief, that we have it all figured out, has led to stagnation and stagnation eventually leads to decline. Personally I assume this is just what happens when we become too content and have things too easy, we aren't forced to work harder to make it better, not when it's good enough as it is.
Invention, whether that's a physical or logical invention, is the child of necessity after all.
People are capable of growth, we will rarely do it, unless we absolutely have to and it's a rare person who really feels comfortable thinking outside of the box . On top of that, nobody wants to hear someone who thinks outside of the box, not unless they have a problem they desperately need fixed.
We aren't yet desperate enough to grow, but that could change in the blink of an eye.
> Our "progressives" are clearly "regressive", their gods are old gods.
The old gods never left. Some of us have decided not to worship them, neither by their old names nor by the new names folks come up with for them. It'd be good to have more genuine apostates: People who reject the category of Government, not merely their least favorite instances of it.