Congratulations for wanting to challenge trends. This is a great way to develop mental and observational skills and perspectives in a way that can slow down the

Congratulations for wanting to challenge trends. This is a great way to develop mental and observational skills and perspectives in a way that can slow down the inevitable decline of everything. First is to be able to take things apart. Things are complicated. Be able to see trends as a combination of factors and to see the results of trends as a set of somewhat distinct consequences, each of which may be both benign in some aspects and adverse in others. Once you have a good breakdown of a trend's inputs and outputs, identify which outputs people might reasonably be expected to want to keep, which outputs almost any reasonable person would reject, and which are ambiguous or controversial. Then consider the inputs, which should never exist, which are too precious to expend for the results obtained, and which are uncontroversial. Now design your challenge. If you are ambitious and do not mind losing, identify a single output as unacceptable and say that the whole trend is unacceptable, all the trenders are fools, and that they must all get along without whatever benefits the trend brings them. Your alternative is to apply a pragmatic engineering mindset, recognize the reasonable wants of reasonable people, and propose ways to retain or increase the worthwhile outputs and abate as many negatives as you can.