I've lost count of the number of times I've heard this response to a progressive argument. When someone points out the flaws of the current state of something, a lot of people reply along the lines of 'I agree, but what else can we do?'
When has life ever been finite? Looking back through history, what has remained the same? Nothing. If there's one constant it's that things change, whether for better or worse. How they change is up to us. So pretending, whether through stubbornness, laziness, selfishness or whatever reason that things cannot change in any given situation is an inappropriate response. Certainly change may be hard, or complicated, but change will happen in one way or another and it's up to us to guide it.
Significant examples of when this response is given is when discussing our economic systems, government policies, workplace policies and even plans for a day out. But it can of course apply to any given situation, as everything is in flux. One way of understanding this is through the basics of Quantum Physics, but you could also say it's just common sense.
Our world is in great transition and we need to be flexible and open minded enough to guide it in the right direction, listening to out hearts as well as our heads.
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