Is it possible to work within a broken system to fix it, or does participating in it just make you another part of the problem?
And a follow-up: when every option is compromised, what do we actually owe the people around us? Is showing up and doing something small enough? Or is that just a comfortable excuse for not burning it all down?
This isn't about politics in the abstract. It's more of an individual question. When you know the game is rigged and you still have to live in it, what does a decent person actually do?
And when we do those small good things inside a system we know is rotten, are we healing it, or just cutting the leaves of a tree that needs to come down?
Is it possible to work within a broken system to fix it, or does participating in it just make you another part of the problem?