Thank you for an honest and revelatory take on this issue. I also appreciate how you acknowledge that it makes sense for some to be jaded based on world events of recent.

Your words remind of Sharon D. Welch who talks about the "Ethics of Risk." She talks about how large, complex problems can be daunting and so we must engage with these conflicts in the immediate, incremental scope of our lives and places where we are.

Her critique is that privileged groups who may "want" to see things change are likely to revert to homeostasis if it appears too monumental.

A further issue, however, is that sometimes these same folks (myself included) will assume that the only hope is future policy change.

Welch's argument is that, especially among privilege groups, is to take risks that are right in front us; expose ourselves to the problems in our lives and communities and work to reverse the problems outside of politics and policy.

Agrarianism focus on the same process; that though political responsibility has a role, we ought to begin by altering the ways of life that cause the problems and enact lived principles that make policy change imminent. Ultimately, this is what Martin Luther King Jr. switched his perspective to, as well.

Do you think that this could be an option for politically jaded folks?