Change

This cartoon seems to sum up what change really means to people. The last panel is of the little cat saying "That's a change I can believe in!" It is not change for the greater good, it is not change for change sake, it is change that makes the world look more like them. Certainly the presidential election was astounding, and the conditions were right where change for change's sake took hold. But long term change, no. It is not that I am a pessimist or think that tolerance of the other is flighty. It is more that people a lot of people have trouble with the outsider, the "that which is not me". They (and I include myself in this category for some situations) cannot begin to think that the world would work, or think, or act in a manner that was not theirs. It is alien, it is weird. This cartoon also gives a bit of room, because while the little dog is a bit incredulous and surprised at the idea of a cat in the white house, in the last panel he is not angry. He is listening. That is a change I can believe in.