No matter how much things change they stay the same?

[Grimlock]

http://torrentfreak.com/the-red-flag-act-of-1865-110626/

I think in this (and previous posts) Rick Falkvinge has presented good arguments for that no matter how much things change something doesn,´t namely peoples fear of changes (mostly those in power) So why is that? How come that each time some new Technology peaks around the corner every industry and its mum screams for it to be banned or at the very least HEAVILY regulated by them of course (because as we all know for a fact they are the ones best suited to say what is in the publics best interests and not, heaven forbid, the public itself) and often post huge sums of money in things getting like they want to.

We seen it a thousand times before with tapes, videos, tv and so much more each time changes come some people coil away scared of it and insists that everyone else should also be.

So why is that why are some people so frighten of change how come the say that: No matter how much things change they stay the same, seem to fit so well with human nature?

 

[PAB]

The short answer is that on the whole human nature tends to be conservative,

an example being some views held by those who believe that in order to address progressing ecological crisis (global warming) we should not look to change our technology but conserve what we know and use alternatives, e.g massively reduce production and consumption and use renewable sources. The real radical and non-conservative approach to the same issue is to forget about renewable energies at least as a solution and focus more on developing our power source via nuclear fusion which would potentially revolutionize human capacity for production. Although good reason to fear this, the unsafety of nuclear energy even more so with fusion , but at least with good old same wind power we know where we stand (even if it means that if we did rely on this we would have to backtrack human civilization and allow catastrophic loss of life in unforeseen events due to lack of energy to support population.

Another example, slightly off topic, is the 'working-class'. In studying british politics the 'Working -Class' of Britain (we could expand this to all working class of the world as it is not a 'national defect however i have only looked at UK) although fight for political change only fight for reform within the established political economy of Capitalism. That is to say Socialist ideas on the whole are not held by the majority of the working class. In this sense the working class is typically quite conservative relative to the Labour movement in terms of ideas they hold the more conservative ideas of Labourism (labourism being the theory and practice that social and political changes can happen but only within the existing framework- i.e reforms in favor of the working class in capitalist conditions). The reason why Labourism is the dominant ideology of the working class is due to material conditions. The 'worker' is generally most concerned about his pay, pension housing and so on -i.e those things that directly effect him/her and are relative to the relationship between capitalist employer of labour and those who sell there labour power. Therefore socialist ideas that present to the working class an ideology of how to begin to solve the reoccurring contradictions between the capitalist class and the working class via a fundamental change in society does not appear in those material circumstances as a seeable option/idea or seem to abstract compared to the more simple and more easier attainable goals of those relations with the upper classes

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Yep, things never change. Just as soon as there's a new technology, there's someone there to steal it or use it to steal other things. There's always some thief who will come up with a clever way to steal, because there's people with a sense of entitlement and a sociopathic lack of ethics who will always be sniffing at the heels of people who create and invent things, looking to take what they have no legal or ethical right to.

 

[PAB]

A film which deals with this topic in brilliancy is 'Things to come ' (1936)
check it out ,