THE RESISTANCE TO CHANGE EXPLIANED

In their safe havens everywhere, conservative thinkers live in fear of anything that is at odds with the status quo. It is so to the extent that they are quite unable to see the status quo as representing injustice. In fact the reactionaries among them will do their utmost to tear down past hard-won gains. 

Really influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the innovators and the thinkers who continually ask those questions like, what if and why not and when. They do not harbour the fear of change, of the what any challenge to conventional wisdom might bring. They don't disrupt things just to be disruptive. They just want to make things better. Nonetheless, such people become targets if they look like they might actually change this or that.

People of colour, women, culturally diverse people, poor people, disabled people have no interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would they? The status quo is harmful to them. The status quo is racist, sexist, ageist, it fosters and rewards rankism and a lot of other things that need to be overturned, exposed and changed.

Ronald Reagan called out 'the status quo' for being Latin for the mess we are in and nobody really argued with him – albeit that the mess is still with us. However, governments cannot make marriages work, or turn the lazy into responsible hard workers, enlighten citizenaries or for the most part, get trains to run on time. All that needs another kind of change agent.

Steve Jobs said that death is very likely the single best invention of life. It turns out that it is also the most effective change agent.