Agents of Change (and Intrusion)
22nd January 2020
One of the most tedious aspects of modern life is the prevalence of the ‘here, let me make you a better person’ impulse. This headline put me over the edge: How can we create a workforce full of lifelong learners? My immediate response was: Who is this ‘we’? And what business is it of ‘ours’ whether the ‘workforce’ is full of ‘lifetime learners’ or not? Did you ask the ‘workforce’ whether they wanted to be ‘lifelong learners’? Betcha didn’t.
This is a fundamental irritating aspect of the proglodyte mindset: Changing things just to be changing things, usually because they aren’t the (better) way the actor wants them to be. Hey, how about just STFU and leave stuff alone? How about minding your own business for a ‘change’?
Sheesh.