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Change is also death. You might say life is about ordering chaos, and upholding and expanding that order, for a while. Of course there's always change, but any
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
Change is also death. You might say life is about ordering chaos, and upholding and expanding that order, for a while. Of course there's always change, but any and all change isn't automatically "more life" or "better life". When I breathe, that enables my life, and changes stuff around. Yet if the planet fell into the sun, while the molecules in and around me would be even more active and changing, that wouldn't be life.
I'll go you one further: Constant change for the sake of change is the mantra of those who would like you to not have the peace to form a personality and coherent convictions in your mind, because you must not have what they discarded or never had in the first place. That's just as much a slogan as "change is life", but good luck with easily disproving it.
> The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans.
-- Hannah Arendt, "The Human Condition"
- TeMPOraL 8y agoConstant change is also how people make money by screwing up others. We talk about it frequently here. Disrupt the market, become the new incumbent, get disrupted by newcomers. Rinse, repeat. This process is a battle, and battles have collateral damage, so it doesn't follow that change is always for the better.