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When we see people that are in most need for a change in their paradigms & principles, ideologies, values & character it just doesn't seem reasonable why people living under such circumstances don't garner the resolve to make the necessary transformation within themselves & their surroundings to make the situation more coherent with reason.
But what exactly is it that forms the impetus for people to change from established norms,to cause a shift in paradigms & inflict the process of creative destruction in both individual & collective space.

The motivation to struggle against the dark tyranny of reality is its unbearability or is it the prospect of a better eventuality ?

Is it just a response that naturally develops in a people & society whose state of affairs are not synchronized with sanity or does this resistance develops because of some inherent attribute embedded within the character/value system of a people & society that refuses to give in to circumstances ?

IntelliPhant

If you carefully study human psychology you will realize that there is nothing but one ultimate impetus that drives an individual. Quest for serenity and satisfaction is a catalyst that ignites a slumbering desire for a change; it is oxygen to a hypoxic on a death bed.

However despite the fact that search for happiness is intrinsic to the human nature, the level of impetus is conditioned with adaptation of environment in which an individual is subjected to and this is where most of us will behave differently unless the conditions become perishing to life itself, but then the quest for serenity will give way quest for survival.

Struggle for a change is primarily to strive out an improvement over what had become unbearable, it is both embedded in the genetic structure that we inherit and acquired through experience and education.

augustsunshine

I think the impetus is primarily education.

burqaposhx

Answer

1. --- An individual's desire to change.

AND

2. --- An individual's drive to a "particular direction" for the intended change.


#1 exists even in the most primitive of beings. They want to change and survive.

However it is the #2 that determines the ultimate success in achieving the objective(s) that the intended change was "supposed to bring".

You want to change and have a better "financial" life. But it really depends if you want to earn and degree +job, or you want to take the "direction or path" of selling drugs.

Both the directions will ultimately help you improve your financial situation. But selling drugs may be quicker, more riskier and thus not-sustainable.

Arleitter

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