Everyday and all over the place you hear constant talk about how we should embrace change, why change is not our enemy, and that we should constantly reinvent to keep up with the times.
But how well directed is such rhetoric? As humans, are we really as reluctant to change inherently as posited?
We love new stuff, right? New clothes, new places, new people. Plus, admit it, we hate boredom more than anything else. It is only new ideas and thought processes which intrigue us, not those which we have thought out already. Apathy is a condition worse than hatred- the situation where every thing and every cause seems meaningless. And apathy grows not out of the new but out of the regular- that which does not change.
So why are we constantly told that we hate to change, but we must still? Change is our natural state afterall, where does the fabricated resistance to it comes from?
A lot of it comes from the factory mode of production which we have managed to interalise into our lives so deeply within two centuries that we find it really difficult to think outside of its premise. This production mode tells us- do the same thing everyday, do not change, "specialise", find your "niche" and stick to it- do not give in to your human instincts which shout out for change...only then will you be any good. We do hate everyday nine to five routined work, but that is what the factory production model tells us we need to do in order to "succeed" and stay "secure"- which again, is only a metaphor for no change.
More importantly, this state is certainly NOT inherent to us. Consider that we always need a supervisor to do such routine work- someone who coerces us, either explicitly or implicitly to get a job done. Exactly in the same way the original factory model needed a foreman to force workers to keep doing THE SAME thing through days, weeks, months and even years!
Change is a part of us- and that is what we want deep inside. Sadly we have let that desire be suffocated by the propaganda spread by certain modes of production and ethics of work to reach their own end. But more than a tool, change for humans is and end in itself. We like to change because we like freedom, because we hate being tied down to a single work, a single image or a single identity. Human psyche is much richer than one experience. We like to change because we like to change.
So today, more than changing to keep up, changing for security, changing for the new economy, new technology and new society, change for yourself. That is what your soul rages for.
But how well directed is such rhetoric? As humans, are we really as reluctant to change inherently as posited?
We love new stuff, right? New clothes, new places, new people. Plus, admit it, we hate boredom more than anything else. It is only new ideas and thought processes which intrigue us, not those which we have thought out already. Apathy is a condition worse than hatred- the situation where every thing and every cause seems meaningless. And apathy grows not out of the new but out of the regular- that which does not change.
So why are we constantly told that we hate to change, but we must still? Change is our natural state afterall, where does the fabricated resistance to it comes from?
A lot of it comes from the factory mode of production which we have managed to interalise into our lives so deeply within two centuries that we find it really difficult to think outside of its premise. This production mode tells us- do the same thing everyday, do not change, "specialise", find your "niche" and stick to it- do not give in to your human instincts which shout out for change...only then will you be any good. We do hate everyday nine to five routined work, but that is what the factory production model tells us we need to do in order to "succeed" and stay "secure"- which again, is only a metaphor for no change.
More importantly, this state is certainly NOT inherent to us. Consider that we always need a supervisor to do such routine work- someone who coerces us, either explicitly or implicitly to get a job done. Exactly in the same way the original factory model needed a foreman to force workers to keep doing THE SAME thing through days, weeks, months and even years!
Change is a part of us- and that is what we want deep inside. Sadly we have let that desire be suffocated by the propaganda spread by certain modes of production and ethics of work to reach their own end. But more than a tool, change for humans is and end in itself. We like to change because we like freedom, because we hate being tied down to a single work, a single image or a single identity. Human psyche is much richer than one experience. We like to change because we like to change.
So today, more than changing to keep up, changing for security, changing for the new economy, new technology and new society, change for yourself. That is what your soul rages for.
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