In looking at any given situation you have the status quo people and the make a change people.
The status quo people
a) like the way things are
b) don't like the way things are but accept what they see around them as reality and as the entire sum of existential possiblity. They say "That's the way it is and there's nothing you can do about it."
c) don't like the way things are but want to be sure that everyone suffers as they did. "Yes, it's a stupid and wasteful and painful way to do things but y'know that's how I had to do/did it and that's how you should do it too."
The make a change people
a) struggle trying to persuade others and drag them into doing things differently.
b) have some idealized version of reality they are trying to bend the world to match.
c) are never satisfied.
I can't tell is which kind of person is happier.
1 comment:
Yeah, you've got a point there. It's also probably true that a person can swing from seeing things one way to the other depending on when you catch them.
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