DarkRange55
Enlightened
- Oct 15, 2023
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Just more random thoughts 
The world always is changing and it always has been. You pick any year in history, everything that people thought was wrong 50 years later, doesn't matter where, what year. 1900, 15 years later everything they thought in 1900 was wrong. 1930 everything people knew was right in 1930 was wrong in 1945. The most important thing you need to learn is its changing and its not going to stop and if you want to adjust and succeed, you'd better figure out the change and adapt to the change. Whatever's happening now in your life and whatever you know in the year 2021 is not going to be accurate in 2036, its going to be totally different.
The book Things Fall Apart, one if the key themes in that book is there's a resistance to change with traditional cultures so in that book its specifically talks about the change that happened in Africa with the Igbo tribe and how there were somewhat outworn practices that were kind of bad like killing twins and stuff like that. And these Christian kind of like colonizers took over and they changed things and there was a bit of resistance but overall it led to perhaps a better tribe. Is that kind of ethos happening in the United States with a resistance to the eventual change thats occurring?
There's nearly always a resistance to change. Thats why people are called iconoclast because they come along and say let's do something different. Deng Xiaoping in China came along in 1978 and say we gotta try something new, this isn't working. And of course a lot of people were against it. In fact Mao Zedong put him in jail for a while because they thought he was strange with these new ideas.
The world always is changing and it always has been. You pick any year in history, everything that people thought was wrong 50 years later, doesn't matter where, what year. 1900, 15 years later everything they thought in 1900 was wrong. 1930 everything people knew was right in 1930 was wrong in 1945. The most important thing you need to learn is its changing and its not going to stop and if you want to adjust and succeed, you'd better figure out the change and adapt to the change. Whatever's happening now in your life and whatever you know in the year 2021 is not going to be accurate in 2036, its going to be totally different.
The book Things Fall Apart, one if the key themes in that book is there's a resistance to change with traditional cultures so in that book its specifically talks about the change that happened in Africa with the Igbo tribe and how there were somewhat outworn practices that were kind of bad like killing twins and stuff like that. And these Christian kind of like colonizers took over and they changed things and there was a bit of resistance but overall it led to perhaps a better tribe. Is that kind of ethos happening in the United States with a resistance to the eventual change thats occurring?
There's nearly always a resistance to change. Thats why people are called iconoclast because they come along and say let's do something different. Deng Xiaoping in China came along in 1978 and say we gotta try something new, this isn't working. And of course a lot of people were against it. In fact Mao Zedong put him in jail for a while because they thought he was strange with these new ideas.
