By Chris Deacon
You may spend years making an attempt to do the fitting factor. Make sacrifices. Inform the reality. Keep the course. Belief the wheels of justice. And nonetheless end up questioning if any of it mattered.
The cash at all times wins. The politics at all times realign. There’s no reform robust sufficient to carry in opposition to it.
Perhaps that’s what’s hardest to simply accept — not that it’s corrupt, however that it’s immovable Too large, too entangled, too dependent by itself dysfunction to vary.
Perhaps the more durable query isn’t why the system received’t change,
however why I maintain making an attempt to make it. Wouldn’t it be higher to place that effort someplace smaller — to assist one particular person as an alternative of making an attempt to repair what can’t be “mounted”?
This platform, this voice — it’s been appreciated. I’m invited to talk, to jot down, to maintain going. It’s gratifying. It feels good. However typically I’m wondering if it’s simply noise. Do I maintain going as a result of I’ve made a profession out of making an attempt to maneuver an immovable mountain – figuring out it’s immovable.
Monday morning musings.
