change is not always good

One of the most damaging concepts of the modern age is that change is always good. This is a profound and dangerous fallacy.

To understand why this is the case let us begin with the primary law of the universe. Entropy.

Entropy holds that everything interferes with everything else. In the process everything slows down. And as things slow down things break. And as things break they disintegrate into nothingness. Things decay.

Thus it is the fundamental law of the universe that things disintegrate into nothingness. Rather depressing really. Many artists, poets, and songwriters have commented on how pointless it is to struggle against entropy. I recall a rather depressing Pink Floyd song about this very issue.

However there seems to be some exceptions to this rule of universal decay. Some things defy entropy and keep other things together. Life is an example of entropy-defying order. Generation after generation, life continues and actually seems to improve. At least if you consider things becoming more complex, more ordered, and more functional as improvements.

Complexity requires order to continue, and order is the opposite of decay.

So what does entropy have to do with whether or not change is always good?