Why won’t you ever change? Mark Morford
Conservatives? Resent change. Despise and hiss and begrudge. This is the basic definition, no? The common understanding, attitude, posture?
Sad but true: Most on the retro-conformist side of the human experiment stake their lives, careers, ideologies, religions and very genitals on the fact that Americans – nay all humans – prefer stasis, sameness, moral viscosity, the counterfeit stability of the establishment over anything resembling wild and unknowable and new.
Are they right? Sadly, they’re sort of right. Conservatives are repulsively well trained to play on a common American fear, so widespread, so easily transmitted it’s less like an idea and more like a virus: Change freaks us out. Change is the demon that makes us panic and clench and worry. Thus, the only change favored by conservatives is a change back to an old way that never really worked and no one really liked in the first place, but hey, at least we know.
It is a tragic condition, this fear, made all the uglier because, while millions say they do not love change, change certainly loves us. It is, famously, the only constant. The universe is in continuous flux. The planet is shifting and evolving by the second, a breathing, pulsing, living organism moving at the speed of consciousness; the human body is remaking itself by the breath and the blink, your very skin sloughing off a billion cells in the time it took you to read this paragraph. Change is not what we do; it is who we are.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/01/15/why-wont-you-ever-change/
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