On October 13, 2010, Fox News reported a poll that found that women were turning on Obama. The reason cited was that they feel there has been too much change—that it has been “jarring.” I was stunned—wondering if I was listening to a broadcast from another planet. I remembered that when I had been sampling a fattening food item in a grocery store in my antiquated home town in Illinois; the old woman who gave me the sample, said, “We have lots of devils here!” as she was handing me the sample. She was referring to the array of food samples in the store that day a few weeks before Thanksgiving. My reaction, which I charitably did not share with her, was, Oh, horrors! I wondered what century she was from (probably Calvin's, I concluded privately as I chewed a “devilish” olive). I wondered, moreover, why some people magnify little things into horrendous sins. Such people, I concluded, cannot seem to let go of what is to the rest of us so utterly antiquated and get with it. That is, why are some people so resistant to change? Why do they perceive small, incremental changes as somehow momentous—even jarring?
The full essay is at "Real or Incremental Change."
The full essay is at "Real or Incremental Change."
