I getb uneasy by people talking about change as if all change was the same.

You get it with politicians all the time - Tony Blair is always rattling on about on about being "a friend to change" and that kind of stuff.I think he picked it up from bill Clinton.

There's good change and you try to help that, and there's bad change, and you try to fight that and stop or reverse it.

When the boss tries to cut your wages and make you work longer hours, that's change. When Apartheid was introduced and extended, and black and brown people in South Africa lost the few rights they had, that was change. Hitler was a very active agent of change in his time, and so was Stalin. Tony Blair's mate Putin is really changing Chechnya quite radically at this very moment.

So you don't just say "change is good, we must accept change". You've got to look at what's being offered, and judge it, and make choices, because every change you accept will rule out other changes that might be a whole lot better) and there are some things that you don't want to change. Like having a breathable atmosphere.

And all that goes for ideas as well.