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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 18, 2013, 03:20 PM Nov 2013

The Root of the Resistance to ACA

By Carol Morgan

The resistance to the ACA is not about politics; nor is it about the economy or its website full of technological glitches. The opposition is rooted in something much deeper; the profoundly engrained and embedded basic human nature that’s resistance to change. Since the beginning of time, with every new discovery and with each new invention, there are those who dig their heels into the dirt and grudgingly resist progress—even when it is in their own best interest to embrace it.

Throughout history, human beings resist change; fighting tooth and nail against anything that alters their routine.

Thousands of years ago, a Greek philosopher, Herclitus planted the seed of an eternal and enduring truth: Change is the only constant. Humans have fought against his words ever since.

Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedrus believed that the recording of the spoken word was the beginning of the end of intelligence. In his mind, the only legitimate discourse was the oral tradition. The written word symbolized the fall of mankind and legitimate knowledge.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2013-11-17/root-resistance-aca .
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The Root of the Resistance to ACA (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2013 OP
I disagree, I say change is natural, it is the established who oppose change. Todays_Illusion Nov 2013 #1

Todays_Illusion

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1. I disagree, I say change is natural, it is the established who oppose change.
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 04:07 PM
Nov 2013

The wars of ideas and change have always been between the ones benefiting from what is and the ones who would benefit from change.

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