This is a bitter truth with the impact of a gut punch because it deflates hope, ambition, and the desire to make a difference. And for most of us, most of the time… it's true.
You can protest, give money, post, live responsibly but the world? It just keeps on turning. Systems exist. Power is not eager to adapt. The powerful adapt faster than reform ever can keep up with them. The news cycle renews itself every 24 hours. People lose their memory.
Even history loses its memory.
Look at the faces of all the people who tried. The martyrs. The whistleblowers. The radicals. The ones silenced, bought, discredited, killed, or just forgotten by time.
The machinery of the world is massive. You’re one person, standing in front of it with a pebble in your hand.
italienman
"You can't change the world."
This is a bitter truth with the impact of a gut punch because it deflates hope, ambition, and the desire to make a difference. And for most of us, most of the time… it's true.
You can protest, give money, post, live responsibly but the world? It just keeps on turning. Systems exist. Power is not eager to adapt. The powerful adapt faster than reform ever can keep up with them. The news cycle renews itself every 24 hours. People lose their memory.
Even history loses its memory.
Look at the faces of all the people who tried. The martyrs. The whistleblowers. The radicals. The ones silenced, bought, discredited, killed, or just forgotten by time.
The machinery of the world is massive. You’re one person, standing in front of it with a pebble in your hand.
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