A Viral Substack Essay
Can you feel it? Change? You’re not alone. Across Europe and America, people feel change. They see change. According to pollsters, 87% of people feel like the world is changing.
War in Ukraine. War in the Middle East. AI. Incels.
Change.
But no one is asking the important questions. What is the change? What will it change?
Do we want this change?
People sometimes like change. But they often don’t like change.
The people weren’t asked if they wanted change. Were you asked? Subscribe to tell the establishment what you think about change.
The philosopher Heraclitus had a theory of change. He proposed that the world was always changing. “No man ever steps into the same river twice,” he is reported to have said.
Parmenides of Elea, on the other hand, had a theory of changelessness. He did not believe in change.
Look around. Who do you think was right?
Sometimes, authoritarians try and stop change. But authoritarians can also stop people from resisting change. We can see this in the case of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn being put in the gulag, or my Twitter account being shadowbanned.
The novelist Michel Houellebecq wrote about change. In books like Atomised and Submission, he wrote about how society was changing — and not always for the better. In The Possibility of an Island, he wrote about a cloning cult in a world ruined by climate change — that word again — and nuclear war.
I wonder what Parmenides of Elea would have said about that.
Change.
The world is changing.
I asked Grok, “Is Change happening?”
”Yes,” it said:
Change is always happening—it’s the one constant in life. From shifting seasons to societal trends, technological advancements, or personal growth, everything’s in flux.
But is the world changing enough?
Cars? They can’t fly.
Cancer? It hasn’t been cured.
Balding? Still happens.
We need more change.
But most people don’t like change.
They like routines.
They like their habits.
They like stability.
And that’s why China is going to win.
Unless we have more change.
But I can’t be alone in this.
At change.ai we need more funding to research the change we need.
And it can’t be small change.
When I was a child, my mother gave me a leaf. It was a beautiful leaf — as green a leaf as I had ever seen.
“What a beautiful leaf,” I said.
“Keep it safe,” she replied to me.
I kept the leaf. It was beautiful and green. But it didn’t stay green. Over time, it turned yellow. It turned into a beautiful shade of yellow.
But the leaf was changing. It grew dry and crinkly. It began to break apart. The leaf was dying.
I was devastated. I ran to my mother.
“I’m sorry, Mama,” I said, “Look what happened to the leaf.”
“Don’t worry, child,” she said, “It’s natural. Everything changes and everything dies. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t beautiful.”
Now my mother has died and I have children of my own.
I’m going to give them leaves.
“Change” has been EXPOSED by @realanontruth.
“Change” might sound innocent enough. We all like change, don’t we?
But did you know that it stands for “COMMITTEE FOR HEALTH ALTERATION AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT ELIMINATION”?
When we ask for “change” we’re actually asking for our health to be altered and our national governments to be eliminated.
It’s like pigs demanding to be led to the slaughter.
WAKE UP!
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