COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE NATIONAL POST
John Pepall offers a feeble argument for electing a national
leader, very feeble indeed.
"The devil you know"?
While I readily grant the application of “devil” to Stephen
Harper, I cannot accept such complete lack of reasoning.
Does the author follow this philosophy in other things?
Does he return to restaurant that gave him a miserable meal
and poor service, rather than go to a new one?
Does he buy another book by an author so boring he couldn't
finish the first one, rather than try a new author?
This philosophy is actually a somewhat disguised form of
what the Luddites asserted.
We'd have no progress in anything if we embraced that
philosophy.
The nature of our world today is one of constant change in
almost everything, and that rate of change is only going to keep accelerating
because it is driven by ever-changing technology.
It was an earlier stage of the same changing technology that
the Luddites so feared and disliked and to which they reacted like thugs.
