History causes resistance to change

Re-telling our story is the way in which man continues to survive so that his offspring will remember how to grow potatoes, make hammers and treat resources with value.

Any disruption in this process that is caused by ideas that re-align the value of one thing over another, cannot help but spark unrest and possible violence.

The flow of new ideas into a stationary culture will cause discomfort in the population as they perceive the inevitable effect as detrimental to their ‘way of life,’ and a disruption to the hard and fast rules for passing on heritage to their offspring.

Since re-telling our story is arguably a paramount role of generational history… the discomfort caused by influx of new ideas will always cause a backlash against the new in favor of the old…but in the end, all change is inevitable even if the new ideas are not fully applicable to the involved culture.

Therefore, history and not the ‘ideas’ themselves forms the resistance to change.

Gene Haynes