WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS
“How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The reason for this is simple, people are evolutionarily antagonistic towards change because change represents the unknown which is more dangerous than the known. But the unknown also offers far more potential than the known. There is a small group of people who are comfortable with the unknown and a large group who are not. When change happens it takes a long time for a critical mass of those uncomfortable with the unknown to accept that the known is worse than the unknown but once that happens, the change happens suddenly. Are we there yet? The perennial backseat road trip question is unanswerable because in this process we can never know precisely how far along in the change any of these groups are. We can say about the current change that there are many more moving from the "safe known" position to the "all-in-on-the-unknown" position. Hoyt: "But the left, in lieu of real achievement and power has fallen into the habit of telling themselves self-soothing lies, and ignoring inconvenient facts. Which is why no one is talking about the massive and extreme movement of Americans all over the country, but generally from less free to more free. Just like they ignored the falling numbers of book printing after they take over that, they’re coming up with strange and bizarre excuses for what is in fact the herd putting its head up and sniffing the air. This won’t end well. Next time the music stops, or the next, the people playing musical chairs are going to get up and grab the chair. And then the music will be rough and awful. And final. All of which could be avoided, if the left didn’t think that resistance is an invitation to push harder, or that no really means yes, or that it’s foretold they win in the end. As it is though, not much even we goats can do, except get to a secure place until it’s said and done. Because even the gods can’t save fools from their folly."
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