Change Sucks

I'm at an emergency management/GIS conference this week focusing on "critical infrastructure" ie. bridges, roads, water pipes, stadiums etc...

Most of the U.S. infrastructure is in a state of disrepair, this combined with the impending global warming crisis, impending lack of fossil fuels, changing U.S. and World demographics, decentralized government thats divided by arbitrary boundaries and general belief among people that they pay too much in taxes is theoretically all going to evolve into one amazing, tragic crisis soon...

On that cheery note I did like this quote:

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others only defend him half-heartedly, so that between them he runs great danger."

-Machiavelli