Why Being Obsolete Doesn’t Have To Be The End

By accepting that we are no longer relevant we may start to become relevant again. Obsolescence can be our friend… as long as it doesn’t have too many friends.

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The status quo is guarded zealously by those who got their first. There are many reasons as to why those who got there first did so, but that isn’t the purpose of this article.

The status quo is a rather vague term and thus very useful. It can be applied at a macro scale but also to many different micro levels. Every field has a status quo. The status quo safeguards the culture of that field, of that aspect of reality.

Because reality changes and shifts, any status quo will create friction at some point with a certain number of its members. These factious members might get out of it altogether and attack the status quo by attracting its members to their new paradigm, or they might stay within and try to stir change from there.

Ultimately, so many members will be disaffected with the system, that the system itself will have become obsolete.

By definition, the status quo opposes change. If we devise a game, we don’t want the game to be devised by anybody else; in fact, we can’t even accept the possibility…