Opinion/Editorial
THE SEA OF CHANGE
The pursuit of change for change’s sake is a nearly perfect description of what it is like to pursue insanity. The culture of America recently made a move to bring in change of any kind. There was no issue discussed during this decision-making that truly discussed in depth what the changes might entail. In the administration preceding the one about to impact each and every American’s life, starting on January 21st of this year, change was the keyword of the hopeful candidate’s campaign sales presentation. Yet, when elected on that limited change agenda, much discussed and poured over, the actual changes he brought were almost none. The fabric of the culture was not interrupted or torn in the least way. Certain parts of the economy were healed while wars abroad were minimized, at least in troops on the ground participation. There were no stunning advances in technology or any other area but there were no crushing defeats either. Essentially, when it came down to it in retrospect, there were no definitive changes that tore the current system, set up and running for so many years, asunder or afar.
But in the vast sea of possible changes, what lies ahead and out there, should be studied and known in order to guide everyone to a longer and more comforting survival on this planet. To illustrate the folly of change being sought without regard to what the change might be, imagine the captain of a ship in a storm near a coastline fighting hour after hour for days and nights to keep the ship faced into the waves and out of the crashing surf not far from the stern. The crewmen, reaching the end of their patience in suffering from all the misery of worry and physical turbulence, overthrow the captain’s leadership and stick one of their own members from below decks into the captain’s role. The chosen fireman from below is a little out of it when it comes to clear thinking or rationality but knows how to dominate. He waves his fists, thumps his chest, and proves that he is the strongest and most powerful living creature on the ship. He rose to be chosen over the others because he promised to change the conditions the ship had been so miserably laboring through. He commands the helmsman to turn the ship and steer for the shoreline cliffs. The fireman campaigned on changing everything violently, from the way it was, into a different state. The change that is about to overcome ship and crew because of his decision is not something any crew member aboard might have wanted but it is a form of change they are going to get.
Unconditional, unforeseeable, and unpredictable change is the most violent enemy of civilization that mankind ever faced in the past or will ever face in the future. Miserable, painful, and violent death is always available to every human living at any time and to any society, no matter how seemingly wealthy or powerful. Change for the sake of having change, without the specifics of what that change might be, is one of the more moronic and stupid things that humanity can participate in. Although there were no ‘raw and physically gaping, changes during the Trump administration there was change. The very fabric of the culture was shaken to its core by that leader’s idea and then the implementation of that idea…that truth no longer mattered, whether in social, political or even scientific dialogue. There was a change. There was an appeal to a basal element of the society that scientists knew was always there but remained silent. The low intellectual level of so much of the population (nearly 30%) has surfaced in communication, complaint, and protest. They know not what they do is a phrase attributed to Jesus on the cross, but it is very appropriate in describing this mass of human beings. If some violent change is in all of our future in America, then that now mobilized element of low intellect will be where it comes from. The only way to stand in the way of this country descending into a form of civil war is to deny these people a cult leader. They had one. The nation steeped to the very edge of disaster, before very hesitantly stepping back. America is, without doubt, the most wonderful and successful social experiment the planet has ever experienced. We all, those of us capable of truly rational thought, have an obligation to make sure that our leadership never again goes to work in order to mobilize and control this very real and dangerous portion of the social order
