From Chris Stohs' Facebook wall, r. Dec. 2013

A fellow named Joe Long said this "I find it striking how 'change' is viewed in the abstract as a positive. 'I just want my children to Change the World' is an unquestioned cliché, a bit of happy-talk; but I think it a far finer thing to identify things worth preserving and perpetuation. It's hard, but it's more of an achievement. Change, like another well-know by-product of life functions, just happens. Leave things alone and they will change: They will break down and rot. Ah, but to fight, sometimes even briefly to reverse decay: That is a task worthy of a hero."