Change
by Zube (zube@stat.colostate.edu)
Created:  Jul  8, 2014
Updated:  Jul  8, 2014
http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~zube/change.txt

Change is a double-edged sword.

Resist it and opportunities may be missed.

Embrace it and you may waste a lot of time before finally deciding 
things were just fine as they were.

Much of the world parrots the first bit while completely ignoring
the second.

Let's put something to rest at the beginning: complaining does
not help.  If your favorite browser radically changes (e.g. Firefox
29), going on about the changes is pointless.  Either bite the bullet
and learn the new browser, find something that mitigates the changes
(The Classic Theme Restorer Add-on) or switch browsers (PaleMoon).
The complaining crowd needs to understand that the people at the
top who make these changes don't care about what you say or do,
so any time spent complaining is wasted.

That said, there is a rum strain of tech person who just delights in
squawking about how much they like change and how, in contrast,
other people are so backwards and resistant to change.

This attitude is execrable.

Everyone is resistant to change.  We have to be or we would never
get anything done.  A three-year-old embraces change nearly every
other minute.  The question each person answers is where to draw
the line.

When some, often young, often arrogant, clown derides another for
not embracing the latest change that they personally find palatable,
I want to ask them the following questions:

Do you like Pepsi?  If so, why don't you drink Coke?

Are you Catholic?  Why don't you convert to Judaism?

Have you moved all your money into Bitcoin?

You run Windows?  Why don't you run OpenBSD or Plan9?

You've been with your significant other for a while now?  Why don't
you give up that person and find another?

If you are straight, why not try being gay or bisexual?

If you don't do drugs, why not try heroin?

If you are overweight, why not try eating right and exercising once
in a while?

You've lived your entire self-satisfied life working in offices?  Why
don't you try being a sanitation worker, a short-order cook or
dedicate your life to helping the needy in Africa?

Or how about:

You don't seem to understand or care about other people's rationales
for not embracing any particular change.  Instead of being a total
wanker, why not change your attitude?

Don't you like change?