Western civilization has been gaslit into this notion that change is impossible.
The inertia of the status quo is so inevitable that we might as well accept it is as we burn this planet down.
So many times this is the argument that wins against risking a change in course. "We aren't ready to change now."
In a sense not being ready for big change is a tautology.
Which seems so obviously a broken notion. Not changing is a course of certain doom.
I am almost always on the side of any kind of
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