Life Those stubborn fools
McCain supporter confronting the crowd gathered to listen to Barack Obama. Cristian “Kit” Paul, Berlin, 2008.
I feel that we need to respect more those old stubborn fools pissing against the wind of change. They're ridiculous and annoying, but their role is vital—just like a car's shock absorbers they cancel out and dissipate the energy of ideological rubble, filtering out the unworthy ideas. Without them, the ride would be queasily bouncy and harsh.
A faster history would be a history of throw ups
Change is such a beautiful mechanism and although it's slow, maddeningly slow, it is so by design—a faster history would be a history of throw ups.
Not to worry, though. In the end the last, most resilient keepers of the past are overwhelmed by the the embracers of change. Because death is "very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away."1
Those old stubborn fools pissing against the wind, they're the future us.
1 From the text of the Commencement address that Steve Jobs delivered on June 12, 2005 to the graduating class of Stanford University.
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