The continual confusion of "different" and "better" in some segments of our society is a continuing source of frustration to me. No, folks, just because something is different or even just new doesn't mean that it's a better means of achieving an end or more efficient. Sometimes it does, when we're talking about mechanical processes, but not when discussing social or personal ones.

This goes hand-in-hand with the idea of "noble suffering." Suffering does not make one noble. Often it makes one more petty, more inward-striving, and more risk-hungry, but in a social system where the biggest set of Misery Balls(tm) seem to earn the right to shout everyone else down -- this is a hard thing to communicate.