Column: Change we can believe in

June 10, 2008 7:54am

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

The words are not mine. They were spoken by Bill Clinton at his inauguration as US president in January 1993. (Probably best not to ask his wife what she thinks about change just at the moment.)

With his words Mr Clinton unleashed a torrent of change-related rhetoric that has been washing over our heads ever since. Embrace change, the gurus tell us. Change or die. And – I don’t know if anyone has ever told you this – but have you noticed that, these days, “the only constant is change”?

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