Society doesn’t change when new ideas are brought up, Society changes when old people die.
It was fucking Max Plank!!!
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it …
Those people will eventually grow old and die while their children grow up to be slightly less conservative (on average).
Progress is coming. One funeral at the time.
That’s what I thought 20 years ago but today I am not so sure :(
For real, the older I get the more sure I am this is part of an endless struggle.
I like to think we’re 2 steps forward and 1 step back kind of species
I like to think we’re 2 steps forward and 1 step back kind of species
Right wing propaganda is a helluva drug.
not sure whi said this
Society doesn’t change when new ideas are brought up, Society changes when old people die.
It was fucking Max Plank!!!
Close enough
That is unfortunately not how anything works. These people were young as well once, and that didn’t stop them from becoming conservative.