When I was a teenager my school did some kind of “future leaders” thing with a bunch of C-list local politicians and dignitaries. You probably know the kind of thing: the whole sixth form was split into groups to make lists of what important issues the world was going to face in the coming years, and then… something? Solutions, presumably, but it was all so carefully depoliticised that I can’t imagine how that would have worked
Anyway, there was an assembly at the start, where all the dignitaries gave the same speech about how important this was because we were going to have to fix all these problems facing the world, and then an assembly at the end for an unlucky spokesperson from each group to present their important findings to the rest of us and to the dignitaries, each of whom gave essentially the same speech they did at the start, about how it was our job to fix things.
And then one of my classmates stood up and said “You’ve got power now. Why aren’t you working to fix things?” And there was a moment of silence