Process of Change in America

Change.
It's a word that can have both positive and negative connotations.   Some people don't like change - it is scary, not consistent, and not predictable.  Some people like change - it brings excitement and something new to the table.
What would America be like without change?  Or with more change?  Is America an ever-changing society?

From "What's 'American' About America", by John A. Kouwenhoven:
"Change, or the process of consecutive occurrences, is, we tend to feel, a bewildering and confusing and lonely thing.  All of us, in some moods, feel the 'preference' for the stable over the precarious and uncompleted' which, as John Dewey recognized, tempts philosophers to posit their absolutes.  We talk fondly of the need for roots - as if man were a vegetable, not an animal with legs whose distinction it is that he can move and 'get on with it.'  We would do well to make ourselves more familiar with the idea that the process of development is universal, that it is 'the form and order of nature.'"

Change in America is necessary.  It keeps the economy moving forward and progressing.  It allows our families, friends, lives, neighborhoods to be in a constant cycle.  It is part of our culture.  Change is part of what it is to live in America.

"Our history is the process of motion into and out of cities; of westering and the counter-process of return; of motion up and down the social ladder - a long, complex, and sometimes terrifyingly rapid sequence of consecutive change.  And it is this sequence, and the attitudes and habits and forms which it has bred, to which the term "America" really refers."