But hold on a minute...  Why the heck do we need change anyhow?

 Everything's fine just as it is, isn't it?

This is WHY Aristotle's type of logic is so popular among the rich and powerful of the world, and those who speak for them (and the schools that teach for them). For them, of course, everything is hunky-dory, and any change (except one that gives them more power, money, etc.) is BAD.  Even they don't really believe that everything stays the same all the time (after all, they don't walk around in togas, or carve their balance-sheets on clay tablets any more!), but they want you and me to think so!  So, they push the idea that nothing important ever REALLY changes, everything always stays the same, history goes in circles, every revolution devours its own children, there is nothing new under the sun, etc, etc.  (This, while telling us out of the other side of their mouths that "change is constant," that little accidental changes like recessions or poverty or wars or corporate scandals are just part of the business cycle, and are "the spice of life.")

Don't think that's what they want you to believe? For starters, just look at old TV cartoons like "The Flintstones®," "The Jetsons®," etc.  Bosses yelled at workers back in dinosaur days, and bosses will be yelling at workers in the day of flying cars and anti-gravity, and that's just the way it is!  Of course, these are just cartoons, but they're an easy way to understand a little about how those who control the levers of  power in our country want us to think: that nothing ever really changes..  

Dialectical reasoning offers us another way to understand the world:

Yes, STRUGGLE...

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