An Average Revolution

In high school I felt pretty average. I wasn't super popular nor very talented at anything, really. There were kids who were known for being good at things. There were also kids who were thought to be underachievers. I've sometimes thought that fading into the middle is the worst situation. The people who did well academically and/or athletically, etc., were admired. The people who broke "the rules" and rebelled against the system, also stood out and garnered some admiration. At the very least, they might not have been judged as closely, because they could always say they didn't succeed at certain things only because the weren't really trying. This may seem like a loose "klahnection", but . . . I was thinking about how things could change in the world. Our thoughts about our government, economic system, etc. are so ingrained that one might conclude it would require a revolution. --a large, massive event. But, just like feeling ignored seemed like the worst thing to me in high school, maybe that could be the worst thing to our current system. Maybe ignore all the rhetoric or opinion about this or that person or group. Just bypass all that. I don't know. I guess it is hard to ignore the fact that tax money is being taken from us even BEFORE we get paid for our work. That's a real issue. How can we ignore that, and not demand that our money be used the way we choose? But . . . maybe here's a somewhat related example of where we have done something like this: The U.S. Postal service. We aren't protesting against it, or talking endlessly about it on Facebook, etc. We just ignore and bypass it's inefficiencies. We just use UPS or FedEX, or e-mail, or . . . We bypass it. If we feel it isn't efficiently serving our needs, we just go a private, non-governmental route. There are creative people out there. I'm sure you can think of better examples of how ignoring things can make them go away faster than launching some revolt against them.