tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post1101286613774546812..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: ChangeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-24006195029747650392019-04-15T11:25:13.066-04:002019-04-15T11:25:13.066-04:00The talk about change that annoys me is the techni...The talk about change that annoys me is the technique of dismissing legitimate concerns by accusing me of simply being uncomfortable with change in any form. I like change just fine when the change is for the good, which it often is in my life. I believe in progress on all kinds of fronts. But try to shift the focus from the harm I'm objecting to, to my supposed allergy to change in all forms, and I'll just conclude you have no substantive defense to my prediction of clear and present danger of harm that outweighs even the projected benefits of some boneheaded program or other.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54220829890550596182019-04-14T19:41:30.034-04:002019-04-14T19:41:30.034-04:00
That would be for FUN, not PROFIT.<br />That would be for FUN, not PROFIT.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-85033080154250317292019-04-14T19:39:14.863-04:002019-04-14T19:39:14.863-04:00Change??? I'll knock you on the head and run ...Change??? I'll knock you on the head and run off with your "change".<br /><br />Yeah, I do GRUMPY.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-45057918243384316972019-04-14T16:03:55.578-04:002019-04-14T16:03:55.578-04:00It has been said that a difference between conser...It has been said that a difference between conservatives and liberals is that for liberals, heaven is in the future, and that for conservatives, heaven is in the past. Another way of expressing that is that for liberals, change is good, and for conservatives, change has the potential to make things worse. By temperament, I am a conservative, because in my childhood I experienced a fair number of events that made things worse- sometimes as quickly as in the blinking of an eye. I had gut experiences that told me that change wasn't always good.<br /><br />When I was in college I read National Review from time to time, as I wanted to know what the enemy was up to. I was surprised to read in National Review a letter to the editor from the brother of a high school classmate of mine. He wrote that while he was a conservative at Columbia, a very liberal place, his views were respected. <br /><br />It turned out that his parents were also conservative. This very much surprised me, as his Jewish parents had fled Austria after Hitler annexed it. It took me a while to make sense of that, as one would expect them to be liberals.<br /><br />Before Hitler, life for Jewish people in Germany and Austria wasn't perfect, but it was bearable and quite often comfortable. Hitler came to power shouting at the top of his lungs that he was going to CHANGE everything. Which he did. Not all change is good.<br /><br />While it was a good change to get rid of Jim Crow laws, not everyone is aware that Jim Crow laws didn't come about until about 30 years after the end of the Civil War. The passage of Jim Crow laws wasn't a change for the good- though many white Southerners viewed it that way. RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.com