[mat_b]

We aren't the real levees though. The system we live in is. Yes, a few people will push back and try to change the momentum to a different direction but that's painful and we have enough going on each day that most people don't have time for that (let alone agree on the direction). Structural change is the only real way to guide the river.

[chaseadam17]

How does structural change happen in a democracy?

[mat_b]

I get your point. I'm merely pointing out that some things, even though they aren't technically inevitable, are (in practice) essentially inevitable because larger forces are pushing things in that direction.

[acessoproibido]

Through a very complicated, long, and ardous process. Its mostly by design (at least in my country) so one bad actor (e.g. a failed painter) cant change the whole system instantly