Someone else's job.

You can look at the change you seek in the world and think of it as someone else's job. That would allow you to analyse and criticise and condemn. And, of course, be off the hook.

For the change that matters, no one is in charge. It's no one's job. The system is doing what the system is meant to do. There is no Chief Systems Change Officer.

If you don't like what the system is doing, there is only one way you can get agency. That is to self-assign yourself to that role.

To not just rebel, but to understand the system and figure out the games you can play to influence it. It's not going to be easy and it's not going to be fast. It will require drip by drip intentional persistence.

You won't be alone, but someone needs to be in charge.

Elegant strategies use systems. Even when they set out to change the system, they don’t fight it directly but use the system as a tool to change the system.

~ Seth Godin, This Is Strategy