The word "change" rings through fashionable rhetoric.
Barack Obama promised.
This week, David Miliband (
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David Cameron copied it too.
Voters seem to be responding positively. But why?
If history can change, then in times like ours, when the pace of change is crazy, people are eager for stability.
When we hit from the "future", we reach familiar comfort.
So what makes change attractive to those who should be fed up with it?
Is the applause of "change" voters just a reactionary desire in disguise?
Or do we want to be different because we are desperate?
Maybe what we really want is to change ourselves.
Evolution keeps humans conservative. Golden-
Fantasy about the past has inspired most of the great revolutions in the world.
Religious reform is an attempt to rebuild the Apostolic Church.
The "freedom, equality and fraternity" sought by the French Revolution is an element that philosophers have given to the primitive times.
Even those who like to change jobs, change houses, or change partners often return to typing or grip on lost love.
It's not surprising if we really want to escape from the present.
No generation has experienced the accelerated changes we have experienced.
Almost all current changes are negative.
See where it brought us.
Economic collapse, over-destruction of the environment, moral collapse.
Optimism failed in the 20 th century.
Utopia proved elusive or ended in genocide.
Plans for progress have brought pain to those trapped in the tower and are directed to economic poverty.
Somehow, in the 21 st century, we recovered hope from the disaster.
But now, again, our confidence that we can better manage change has collapsed.
We have made progress in technology and medicine, but every progress has brought about its own problems,
Resistant super bacteria to nuclear waste that cannot be discarded.
Commitment to progress
Globalization and democracy
Disappointed.
Inequality is exacerbated by globalization.
Democracy keeps the evil regime intact and the incompetent one in power.
Environmental change is disturbing, as climate change has been relatively slow in most of past records and the loss of biodiversity is not notable.
Now, the salt sea is turning to the desert, and part of the Arctic is turning to water, and oil is becoming an expensive rare resource in its lifetime.
As the whole country becomes unrecognizable to its own people, cultural change is more sinister.
Will time travelers in their fifties from the UK recognize their rude, flashy successors?
The fear of the confiscation of traditional culture is powerful --
There is a lot of hostility towards immigrants. So -more change?
"Return to basics" and "family values "-
Especially when voters are tired of participating in unfair wars and are upset by the lack of a moral compass --
From a historical point of view, you will enjoy better slogans in a chaotic era.
However, it can still be changed politically.
There are three reasons I think.
First of all, change is as attractive as the promise of astrologers --
Vague enough to make sense to all.
Second, its popularity suggests widespread concern that we have bottomed out.
The susceptibility of voters to it is the hope of victory over experience --
Believe that no change will be worse.
The most important thing is that the words of change are effective, because politicians are the only group free from modern change.
Tony Blair's nonsense about "novelty" is Mrs. Thatcher in trousers.
Gordon Brown's "caution" is the abandonment of the adventure.
Clinton and Bush look the opposite, but they both subverted the Constitution, gave power to the president, and gave power to many parties.
Billion-Dollar lobbyists
As Gore Vidal once said, there are two political parties in the United States.
Conservative and reactionary
The change of government has not shaken the continuity of the political class.
The same is true of Britain.
For voters, voting for change is equivalent to denying the damn political comfort that has caused so much pain to others.
This is the summer of our attitude towards energy.
And then there's a series of green issues.
Change forever.
Soaring oil prices;
The situation has eased recently, but it is still twice as high as a year ago, while gas and electricity bills are soaring.
The era of cheap energy is gone forever.
We are most likely at the peak of oil production, but competition from China and India means our gasoline will never be as cheap as last year.
Our response is to drive less.
Gasoline consumption has declined, and sales of electric vehicles are also growing rapidly,
More than 30 drivers said they were considering taking public transport.
We are also recycling more resources and turning to low
Energy bulbs that will double sales this year.
But at the same time, people have a new understanding of the problems caused by our use of energy --
Most importantly, carbon emissions that lead to climate change.
Combining energy tensions in our wallets with concerns about climate change is not a happy combination --
But that at least means we are moving in the right direction for the planet.
In electronics, Apple's iPhone has been a catalyst for change in the mobile industry, allowing people to use the real Internet on the move. Build on the company's hugely successful iPod brand. With its multi-
Touch screen, virtual keyboard
The IPhone's built-in iPod and camera has sold more than 4 million units worldwide since its launch in June 2007.
In fact, in the past 18 months, the technology community has become more sociable.
The incredible rise of Facebook, personal blogs and Twitter has shifted from content created by big companies to a more personalized approach.
Even politics has not been spared, and the campaign on Facebook and Twitter has now become the standard for almost every politician, with David Cameron taking a step further on his website.
"Politics is definitely a key part of the overall cultural change brought about by the Internet," said Sam Locke, Cameron's network guru.
"Openness like this involves a certain amount of risk, but we believe that it will be a great thing in general --
This heralds a major change in the political way.
"Of course, there is a disadvantage --
Every morning, a list of people who electronically poked at you will soon become very irritating.
But as websites become more complex, it seems that the spread of social networks is just beginning. Wd b gd 2 c u.
What exactly does this mean?
It can be said that the biggest change in our way of life is the way we communicate with each other.
Growth in texting and Internet access
Online websites mean that you can build relationships without meeting each other.
In the past 12 months, the number of text messages in the UK has surged by 30 percentage points.
I was tempted by words, abandoned by words, and even updated my mortgage by words.
It's fascinating how the "forever forty" generation embraces diversity in ways that our parents can't imagine.
We dress up in style, go out for dinner and buy the radio head album.
At the age of 45, you can be a grandparents, go to college for the first time, have your first child, or go on a date again after a long marriage.
Friendship is new love.
Unlike our parents, we are very ambitious about relationships outside of the family.
Friends make us happier and more independent than any other relationship in life.
We lied to ourselves that we were young.
The great term "mid-Youth)
But in fact, there is a huge gap between us and today's 20 s.
They process information more quickly in different ways;
They edited the content that bore them.
What worries me is the false intimacy of lifestyle culture in the 21 st century.
We all know how exciting it will be to hear a new email ping to our inbox at four o'clock A. M.
But have we lost the art of face-to-face conversation?
Of course, clarity is not easy.
We hurt each other and confuse each other.
Make ridiculous value judgments
Because the tone cannot be judged by text or email.
Who said that the important things in life should be reduced to 150 words?
Another change that has revived Britain is the credit crunch.
In the financial equivalent of the "butterfly effect --
A butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world and changing the path of a tornado on the other side --
In the Midwest, a home owner with an unreliable credit record is trying to top up his mortgage.
Even though he had borrowed a lot of money, the lender had him get the money.
The loan is packaged with thousands of other such loans and sold to banks in London and their customers to trade as a form of investment.
When American homeowners and others like him are in trouble and in default, British investors will suffer huge losses.
Banks don't have that much money to lend and are afraid to commit themselves.
People here suddenly found that they could no longer get a mortgage.
It's not anything they do, it's something that starts on the other side of the Earth.