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Originally Posted by kronique
Surely your question has substance in it......but I would like to ask you something. When the world is changing why should we be left behind?
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kronique,
Q1. Are all the changes in the world for the good?
Q2. Is it sensible to expend effort on change which will not provide a positive outcome?
Q3. Does it matter if you don't keep up with the Joneses?
To all three I would answer 'no'. Therefore I see change for its own sake as a futile exercise which is wasteful of both time and money which could usually be better applied elsewhere.
Of course you have to realise that my views are tinged by nearly a decade of government under Mr Bliar. He sees himself as a 'moderniser' and has changed many things that were old-fashioned but worked well only to replace them with things that have been barely thought through and are now proving to be unworkable. Meanwhile things that do need attention have been left untouched.
I take after the Duke of Wellington (I think it was he) who said "Change! Who wants change? Things are bad enough as they are."
So, to iterate my earlier post, I neither like nor dislike the changes but unless they provide something new that is valuable (there may be such benefits, but I have not seen any so far) I doubt the value of making them.
Michael