[jauntywundrkind]

I think you've hit the nail on the head, about how systems of compliance breeds malcontentedness.

There's the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely," but it's such a more boring banal inverted tyranny that allows well intended useful money to flow into such low life police state shit, and it ruins so badly the greater project & belief in doing stuff.

Cynicism seems ever on the rise, and it keeps seeming ever more warranted. More and more, nothing becomes as punk & contrarian as hopefulness & trying, in believing that we can surpass our mired shittinesses.