What Causes Change?

[MoseyWalker]

Poll question: What Causes Change?

[Codeblue]

1. I think its two choices

I voted for emotion because I think that's the beginning. Only after someone feels emotional about an issue can they begin to have thoughtful discussion about it. Otherwise, nobody would be moved to discuss it in the first place.

[MoseyWalker]

2. Maybe, but maybe not

possibly a lot don't have the time or resources (internal or external) to relate to any thoughtful discussion.

Hey, it could happen!

[Redneck Socialist]

3. Hard work, and lots of it. n/t

[MoseyWalker]

4. Great answer! n/t

[Toucano]

5. Change happens when you buy a bottle of water with a $20 bill.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I'm in such a jocular mood tonight! I was able to sleep today, so I guess that's why.

[pitohui]

6. anger usually, so yeah, emotion

sometimes grief

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Most Often? Sales Tax.

:rofl:

[MoseyWalker]

8. That really is funny!

:rofl:

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

9. Guns mostly

if we're talking about on a mass political scale. Raw emotion typically doesn't mean much without the guns.

[LynnTheDem]

10. Terrorism.

"911 changed everything"

[rpgamerd00d]

11. Its a well documented fact: People make decisions emotionally, and rationalize them intellectually

[TahitiNut]

12. Free will.

:shrug:

[MoseyWalker]

14. I was hoping for input from "others"

THANKS!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. I think Yeats said it best

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity...

Excerpt from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

[MoseyWalker]

15. scary stuff, my friend!

scary stuff indeed.

thanks for your input. I'll be looking more deeply in Yeats (though I really didn't want to) because of your response.

[LostInAnomie]

16. Crisis

We aren't likely to see the true error of our ways until it beats us in the face. The sad thing is that when we are talking about nations that usually mean a lot of people have to die.

[rucky]

17. After careful consideration of the choices...

i went with my gut.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. History.

Change, in a political sense, doesn't just happen. It is caused by a series of events that spur people into action.

[MoseyWalker]

19. a series of events, or

a confrontation of individuals?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Powerful individuals become powerful only through a series of events.

i.e. The American Revolution didn't happen because Sam Adams started holding meetings in Boston. Sam Adams became a powerful speaker for the revolution because of a series of events that had nothing to do with Sam Adams, like the Stamp Act, which was preceded by the need to pay for the French and Indian war, which was really a part of the Seven Years War which was a battle for hegemony in Europe and a continuation of the War of the Austrian Succession in which Prussia was a British ally.....and so and so on.

[uppityperson]

20. Life is change. Change is life.

People make decisions emotionally and then look for intellectual reasons, often.

[LoZoccolo]

21. Other.

Action.

[porphyrian]

22. Change is the natural state. Resistance is futile. - n/t

[leeroysphitz]

23. A lack of stasis.

[bananas]

24. Insight. nt

[bridgit]

26. the classic four causes...

Then there is the initiating source of change or rest: the person who advises an action, for instance, is a cause of the action; the father is the cause of his child; and in general, what produces is the cause of what is changed. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/4CAUSES.HTM

[NuttyFluffers]

27. gnomes, fairies, and spirochetes.

beware the spirochetes, by the way.

:hide:

[rug]

28. Opposition.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault

and fault lines change.

[solinvictus]

30. Other...

The force of arms coordinated with a core group of activists moving against a weakened state caught up in internal or external struggles.

[MazeRat7]

31. Action - basic physics - nt

[ReadTomPaine]

32. Bingo. All it takes to effect change is action. n/t