It is always about that. We've been told repeatedly in many languages, in many tongues, in a million different persuasive arguments to back down. The poor are brave because they have no choice. The rich are brave because they can afford to lose. The middle class has just enough to make it scary to lose it all and little enough to squash any grand moves. The cities are the perfect reflection of this grey deal of compromise. Masses of men and women living from day to day, embracing all the numbing agents they can afford because they know something is wrong and they don't know how to fix it.
It is possible to fix it though if you decide to be fully conscious of your every act. But here's the catch. How do you switch off the darn auto-pilot?