Les, your messages grow ever more cryptic! What I think you may mean is, 'am I frightened of change' (?) Well, yes, actually - although 'wary and not blindly accepting of' may be a better description of my attitude to change/progress. There are several reasons for this:

(i) Change is an entropic process and, hence, inevitably leads to loss (of information, value, quality etc.). We should not embrace it blindly.

(ii) Progress is often just a 'figleaf' for greed. In my lifetime I have had to watch both the urban and rural environments being degraded and destroyed for no very good reason except for profits for the few.

(iii) In this country public services have been subjected to so much unecessary change that they no longer work any more. Just look at the state of education, the health service, public transport etc., etc.

(iv) Many destructive changes to our environment and way of life have been wrought in the name of fashion - not necessity. Most of the people in public office seem to be insanely ambitious careerists who feel compelled to make their mark whatever the cost or long term consequences of their actions. For such people it's much easier to be fashionable than sensible.

I see the same forces at work in popular culture. I believe that commercial Rock/Pop music is both infantile and infantilising. I also believe (contentious bastard that I am!) that this type of infantile music is one of the factors that has led to drunken, drug soaked yob culture that we see all around us. And the same bollocks (technical philosophical term) is used to justify it - commercial viability and fashion.