If the intent of your beliefs, stance and actions are to improve a world system that sucks, giving that system the good ol’ middle finger does the exact opposite of your proclaimed intent. You are part of the system you are actively attempting to sabotage.

When we opt for the easy FU, we skip the hard work. By doing so, we skip the required personal inquiry on what it is we actually want, and the personal actions we can take to do better. From a systems perspective, this is the feedback loop many of us currently find ourselves in:

* The system is broken.

* The system needs fixing.

* The system won’t fix itself.

* An insufficient number of people are willing to fix the system because it still “mostly” works.

* The system needs to incentivize fixing.

* Thus, we need to incentivize the breakdown.

* We break the system.

* Go to start of loop.

How many iterations of this self-terminating feedback loop do we want to be caught in before we get off this broken algorithm? If you’re operating within this feedback loop, what is the likelihood of you having the self-awareness to know when it is time to switch course to the positive feedback loop? What capacity to operate outside the negative feedback loop would you likely have given you‘ve been busy destroying the system you purport to wish to rebuild?

If we actually desire a virtuous just world, why would we want systems collapse & anti-virtue to precede it? Why not skip to virtue now, in your life?

You are the fixer in the system. If you can’t figure out what to do to fix the world, start closer in and fix yourself. Equip yourself through inner work, to then do the outer work. Let’s leave the world in a better place than we found it.