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The Futility of Reform

Green street sign reading “Time for change” suspended above a blurred urban street with a clock visible in the background.

We dream of reform because it flatters us. It casts us as sculptors of history rather than bystanders in entropy. But large systems do not repent; they calcify, fracture, and reassemble. Political change is choreography. Real change is metabolic, intimate, and painful. The only structure you can meaningfully reform is the one staring back at you.