Happy New year everybody….. The campaign slogan “Hope and Change” still seems to be our mantra. An unpopular slogan for sure, but change can be good…. if YOU thought of it….
I have come to understand and identify three very different responses to change. 1. The first is exemplified by government edicts that have a zero chance of exciting us lower forms of humans in a positive way. This first category of “change” is totally devoid of our input. Making us “happy” about decisions we have no part in can take a long time (if ever) to accept no matter how good they might be.
Conversely if we have a choice in the matter these second two have more to do with personality types, than how they are served up… so there is at least some chance for happiness in them. Changes that are personal decisions…. can be exciting for some folks, even addictive… believe it or not some people live their life looking around the next corner with great anticipation. Often these people live in train cars, door stoops and on other peoples couch because structure is not as important as what they might see the next time they open their eyes when they wake up every morning. Most people in this “anxious to go” category aren’t totally that polarized. Many folks achieve at least some structure in their life, but get tired of what it takes to maintain the status-quo and dream of unplugging. The “Lukenbach Texas” crowd. A small percent even come to realize that dream and go live on a boat, a cabin in the woods, or move completely off the grid. 3. To others, change is never comfortable no matter who’s idea it is, they protect their choices and accomplishments fiercely. Change is always a dirty word because they certainly wouldn’t bring it up and can’t believe there are people that do! This group of folks will never understand how group 2 lives their life, but that’s OK….. nobody said we all have to think alike to enjoy our individual lives.
I haven’t met many that are totally polarized to one end of the three schools of thought. The closest example of heavy polarization might be the overwhelming response to Obama’s decision making process, he seems to not be able to help himself, but hey.. he always knows what best for you and me right? Hope and Change……. it would be nice if I believed he even hoped we would like his change… but it doesn’t seem to matter to him. Honestly though, regardless of how he swings his club, I don’t think all his decisions have been wrong.. just poorly delivered. Even the best steak you can envision… cooked to perfection becomes inedible if you serve it on the underside of a nasty garbage can lid. I guess there’s no time in his agenda for fireside chats or Ronald Reganisms that bring people along with him. All I can say is you get who you vote for… I’m not a big political guy… but I believe we missed a good chance at fine leadership last time. America has certainly become a country run by minorities and yuppies that think they are serving some higher purpose by listening to crap like Feracon, Jackson and that other little weasel that makes his pay by enticing discontent. If I was a black man…… I would be ashamed of that kind of leadership. I guess you take what you can get.