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IF it’s TOO MUCH TROUBLE for TODAY’s ADULTS to SWITCH NOW, KIDS, BE WARNED!
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The ‘Boiled Frog’ adage is the story of a frog who jumps into a pot of cold water on a stove and as the water gets warmer, the frog that is basking in this warmth gets lazier and more comfortable and as time passes, while he thinks about making the needed change, he delays his summoning up of energy to enjoy a wee bit more basking in what is now a VERY relaxing hot tub. When he finally discerns that he MUST make the needed move or perish, it is too late as he can no longer summon the needed energy.
In SYSTEMS terms, this is known as being LOCKED IN BY HIGH SWITCHING COSTS. When we invest so much in converting so many of our applications to the Microsoft PC, as it becomes evident that the Apple or the UNIX system offers a better platform, by that time the resources needed to back out of Microsoft and ‘port’ to a new superior system will have become gargantuan so that we will have no choice but to accept the unfolding Microsoft-dependent future that we have trapped ourselves in.
Where we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are as a social collective, generally, is in this sort of situation because of our commitment to GROWTH. The WESTERN CULTURE commitment to GROWTH in our constructive developments is exemplary of being LOCKED IN by HIGH SWITCHING COSTS. We are ADDICTED TO GROWTH and this has us TURN OUR BACK TO THE REALITY of TRANSFORMATION.
Our grandchildren stand to PAY BIGTIME for our insistence on our pretending we don’t see what’s really going on, which is TRANSFORMATION and NOT “GROWTH”. GROWTH is a RATIO-based concept wherein something LOCAL is said to increase in magnitude. GROWTH is an abstract LOCALIZER of dynamics (to LOCALIZE is to EFFABLE-IZE), but REALITY remains NONLOCAL since REALITY IS TRANSFORMATION. That is, RESONANCE is the REALITY but it is NONLOCAL and thus INEFFABLE. GROWTH is LOCAL and thus EFFABLE but it is only REAL within a SUBSTITUTE REALITY.
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