People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
People don't make changes because things are wonderful.
As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
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