When faced with change its easy to fall into certain traps. It is comforting to cling to history, routine and the status quo. Lenin said: The worse the better, meaning that potential for change is most possible when social discontent is highest. However, there is some modern evidence to suggest that the more downtrodden and subjugated a society becomes, the more adversed to change its people become: they seek ways to justify the system that ensnares them. System Justification is, to use a simile, like putting a frog in a pan of cold water and slowly turning up the heat. History is an important part of human and societal evolution, but its worth bearing in mind what Michel Foucault said about it: There is no history but a multiple overlapping and interactive series of legitimate vs excluded histories. Try not to live in fear, or in the past... dont be a boiled frog.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:05:59 +0000