Comments on: Pessimism http://elyrosenstock.com/2008/08/29/pessimism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pessimism Formerly Crastinate.com Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:23:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Josef http://elyrosenstock.com/2008/08/29/pessimism/#comment-579 Josef Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:18:11 +0000 http://crastinate.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-579 The Status is anything but Quo. The world is a mess...and I need to rule it. The Status is anything but Quo. The world is a mess…and I need to rule it.

]]> By: Barry http://elyrosenstock.com/2008/08/29/pessimism/#comment-578 Barry Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:13:24 +0000 http://crastinate.wordpress.com/?p=148#comment-578 <i>I think the majority of the world wants to believe that the status-quo is close to the best solution possible. </i> This is true, with additional levels - people are afraid of any sort of change, and justify to themselves that "if there was a better way, someone would have done it already." That's the excuse I hear most of the time - "if it's such a good idea, why isn't anyone else doing it?" Such attitudes are the basis for indifference and stagnation. There's probably some schadenfreude involved as well to those responses, as well as the fear of actually seeing someone else (they know) succeed. I think the majority of the world wants to believe that the status-quo is close to the best solution possible.

This is true, with additional levels – people are afraid of any sort of change, and justify to themselves that “if there was a better way, someone would have done it already.”
That’s the excuse I hear most of the time – “if it’s such a good idea, why isn’t anyone else doing it?” Such attitudes are the basis for indifference and stagnation.

There’s probably some schadenfreude involved as well to those responses, as well as the fear of actually seeing someone else (they know) succeed.

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