tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088603658552825500.post1005948774740499714..comments2023-11-05T05:53:29.465-05:00Comments on The Hickory Hound: The Trends for 2012James Thomas Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04359970774315269896noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088603658552825500.post-7934776376596854052012-01-01T10:17:33.489-05:002012-01-01T10:17:33.489-05:00Change. It takes and comes in many forms. I ofte...Change. It takes and comes in many forms. I often wonder how many times it takes place merely for the sake of. How many times does change occur simply because someone who has the power to make it happen? Because they someone wishes to leave their indelible mark upon posterity as a lasting testament to themselves. How many times I often wonder. But the inevitable conclusion that comes from all of that expenditure of gray matter machination is that change, like it or not, embrace it or not, want it not, will come. Just like the sun rising, we all eventually finding the answer to the God question, and taxes, so too is change one of those omnipotent constants in the universe.<br /><br />Humans categorically are resistant to change. It means new, it means unknown, it is unfamiliar, foreign, and strange. It means something in contrast to what we are used to, depended on, and have used or embraced many times. But change comes nonetheless. We can rebel against the inevitable, we can soapbox and stump our derision to it, and we can find 563,729 reasons change is bad, wrong, and untimely. But it will come, remember, it’s constant. Timeliness, relevance, and rationality are all factors contemporaneous to change and facilitate it. Not change merely for the sake of. And we should remember that change is not instantaneous, at least change that has far reaching and deep societal impact and consequence. I think that we have lost sight of that aspect of how the world works as we seek instant gratification and indulgence in our whims and desires.<br /><br />Our little blue ball has been around for about 4 billion years. We have only engaged in our industrial revolution for approximately 175 years now. And look at the impact that we’ve had thus far. We pursue money and possessions as symbols of our success with reckless abandon and all the tact of a steamroller. We poison our water, air, and land and invent things in an attempt to mitigate our transgressions. We insist on things as archaic as pets’ rights then we deny things like healthcare for the elderly, education to those who will eventually be in charge the children, and the poor food and shelter and try to rationalize all of it as being the right thing to do. <br /><br />I hope that as we move into 2012, this sense of doom of despair permeating the year turns out to be so much ado about nothing. That as we glide toward the inevitable choices to be made in November, that we are cognizant that we will get what it is we ask for, so we should be careful with what it is we ask. I know that change is coming to us all. I hope that it is planned, rationalized, and serves to make us all better for our own sake, our world, and with each other. We are what make our world, be it for better or for worse. We lose sight of that in our pursuits and wishes. Hopefully it will be in 2012 that we keep that in mind as we go about our change.Silence DoGoodnoreply@blogger.com