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Lord's avatar

No, I want you to admit there are equal problems with avoiding change. There is vast inertia and desire to avoid change if at all possible and to only change out of absolute necessity. Change is conscious, difficult, and visible. Concerns and costs, risks and uncertainty are palpable and preeminent. Meanwhile not changing is camouflaged, easy, and unconscious. How much easier it is ignore it until it can't. There can be problems with either, but too rapid change is subject to its own losses which limit its advancement, while too slow result in crises forcing change. Those who think change is too fast, also need to consider that actually it may have been too slow and the baseline is not stasis but trend.

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J O's avatar

This raises my valuation of persistently luddite cultures, such as the Mennonites. It raises it from a very low prior value, of low education and very low technological progress, but it does raise it (somewhat).

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