The only alternative is the one Mario Savio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio) famously described at Berkeley

The only alternative is the one Mario Savio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio) famously described at Berkeley in 1964: > There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! The only way change happens is when people go that way instead. But putting your body "upon the gears" is a really hard thing to do; it means a life spent fighting mostly losing battles and foregoing most of the conventional consolations life offers, like family and social acceptance and material comfort. In other words it's asking someone to be a hero, and while I wish we had more heroes, I can't blame anyone for not leaping up to volunteer for the job.