Palfrey's life

Ok, first something vaguely light, and then I've got a little rant to go off on. The Pixies are reforming! Yay! Tour dates! The Brixton academy dates are gone, so does anyone want to go to T In The Park? Heck, I'd love to see a festival again, I'd like to see Scotland again, and I *want* to see the Pixies. Any takers?

K, rant. I got started off from greymaiden's post here, and figured I had enough to say that I wanted to write in in my own journal. So rant begins.

What is society? In a way I would say it's a common set of rules that we all agree (at least in overall principle) to follow in order so that we can collectively survive together without complete chaos taking over. Some of these rules I would call important, some I would say have become regarded by some as important, and some can be discarded without losing very much at all. Which rules are which is a complicated issue - I have some days when I wonder whether Soylent Cola would be such a bad idea. Now, a lot of our rules in western society have descended from bits of Christian rules (who descended from various pagan sects, etc, etc), and some people appear to have forgotten that we're no longer running on a set of rules that can be considered even slightly original. Human society keeps changing. This is natural. Our rules have to change with us, and this is what we have done. Christianity was a ruleset change. It exists because of this process. Remember that.

We've always (for always, read: recorded history) done this. And now, as always, we have people complaining about change. We have some complaining for change, others complaining against. Such is the way of things. Those complaining for, I believe should always be allowed to speak their reasons why they wish to change the rules, and if it's going to help some people, and not hinder the rest of us, then the change should be made. Where there is a conflict between two groups, one of which will gain and another will lose by a change, then we debate. If overall opinion goes against change, then right now we do not. The issue can be brought up again, but for now it is settled. If opinion goes for the change, then we do it. This is a healthy process. What makes it unhealthy is when people claim "no, we can't change that rule, it would go against the basic principles of something that all of this was once based on". Wake up and smell the maplenut crunch. We've *already* changed from those old principles. Why? Because we changed, and so our rules have to change. If you want to go back to hunter-gatherer, reject the whole of modern society, then so be it. Just don't try and drag the rest of us back with you.

Change is Life. Forwards, Onwards and Upwards.