miridian ([info]miridian) wrote,
@ 2008-04-21 15:59:00
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I have been mulling about this quote. Tell me what you think he ment by it and what it means to you.

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
General Eric Shinseki, retired Chief of Staff, U. S. Army

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[info]timshel
2008-04-22 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Well, the way the sentence is worded seems to be incorrect. If you don't like change it doesn't logically follow that you have any feeling whatsoever about irrelevance, since that's not a cause/effect relationship and it outside the scope of the initial argument.

Buuut... what I think Shinseki is really trying to get across is that as much as we dislike having to change the routine that we're used to, the cost of not changing (irrelevance) is even worse. Embrace change because its the lesser of two evils. I can dig it, and was disappointed when the White House pushed Shinseki out of the army for being anti-Executive branch policy.

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[info]destrukto
2008-04-23 01:05 am UTC (link)
What he said.

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[info]dawn_tello
2008-05-01 06:02 am UTC (link)
I don't know, I don't know if equating not changing with irrelevance is what I'm getting out of it.
To me, the word 'stodgy' comes to mind. If you don't change, what little you've come to grasp closely gains much importance. Irrelevance is like street children, never the same.
That or it's the glue I'm huffing.

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