"The speed with which people will disavow themselves tomorrow from what they do today will astonish you." - Futurist Jim Carroll

Just watch.

There will be countless people tomorrow who will say, "Well, I wasn't really a supporter." "I wasn't behind it." "I never really believed in all those ideas." "Ya, I always thought it was wrong."

They will suggest they are innocent. They were doubters all along. They had nothing to do with it.

That they would have spoken up except that....

The list goes on.

Tomorrow, they will try to bend the truth to whatever new reality they want to slide into.

Remember this post.

You'll watch it happen.

The speed with which people back away from their previously strongly held beliefs indicates that those beliefs were really nothing but temporary expediency.

This happens with innovation and leadership too. Think about it! Think about all the excuses, attitudes, and shifts in perspective when they disavow their previous stance as the future suddenly appears. 

Who are they?

People who aren't very good at innovation, but who are great at excuses.

Take a look around you.

You are surrounded by them.

People who are shallow in their belief system, narrow in their ethics, and quick
to disavow their past.

And in your mind, you know that their minds are often just simply empty vessels of expediency, where they will do and say and act with whatever repulsive idea, hateful belief or conspiracy-laden agenda that fits their shallowness.

Or whatever agenda-of-the-moment they can adopt, espouse, and support that fits into their belief system.

Just watch.

You know I'm right.

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Futurist Jim Carroll figures you know exactly who he is writing about.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/daily-inspiration-innovation-the-speed-with-which-people-will-disavow-themselves-tomorrow-from-what-they-do-today-will-astonish-you/

A quotation from Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/5…

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@humanetech

EU is really going overboard with the #antiRussia hysteria. If anything it is repellant.

It smells of "give them a foreign enemy and they will tolerate arbitrary abuses."

Russia has been made an enemy.

RussiaGate is now exposed as a hoax, led by expedient politicians esp' #HillaryClinton for impending 2016 loss which all non-deluded people saw coming, and we are no longer going to sit by and let #EU deface fedi with abject #russophobia for political #expediency.

@EU_Commission

When #expediency trumped #ideology & #friendship,as always #US #policy do, Then the new #architecture of the Indo-Pacific will not be easy to negotiateDouble exclamation markThinking face
The real #reason #France was excluded from #Aukus https://spectator.co.uk/article/the-real-reason-france-was-excluded-from-aukus via
@spectator

#ChinaERA
#Anglosaxon #Francophone