I think there is a fair amount of truth in what you’re saying, but it illustrates that agency still exists, even if too many people (ourselves, maybe included in that) don’t always exercise it. But there are opportunities, as you say. The more we talk about those, the more they exist in real time. The more people will be driven to take advantage of those possibilities to do the right thing. And at the end of the day, someone is making the choice to make our choices appear less possible (if that makes sense).
This is the problem with our modern world, I think. That these huge institutions dominate our lives, and make it seem as if there are no options, when, of course there are. The more we talk about them and highlight them, the more likely we are to make these giants responsible to US, not to monied interests.
