TINA!
This is what Margaret Thatcher said about her draconian free market policies.
It’s an easy thing to tell ourselves about compliance to any dominant system. But it’s incomplete.
The complete sentence is, “There is no alternative unless we’re prepared to endure short-term discomfort as we push back against the dominant system.”
So the real question isn’t, “what’s the alternative?”
The question is: “Can we create the conditions to cause this system to change enough for us to do the long-term work we’re proud of?”
Systems don’t like to be disrupted. Persistent systems push us to believe TINA.