This line you said stuck out: “we live in the real world where everything does not come in neat ready made packages, and we have to adapt” That is a victim mentality. Nothing we can do about it. Accept the bad things and work with it as best you can. It’s coping. And it’s what we do regardless of our wishes. Everybody copes. But I’m talking about planning rather than accepting the happenstance of what we find around us. _I_ don’t have a community plan at hand ready to franchise the plans for for you to build your own city with. But the point of politics _is_ shaping the world around us by using whatever funds we contribute for them to work with and all of the competing personalities for what that future would be like. You have to know what shape you want to see and engage accordingly.

This line you said stuck out:
“we live in the real world where everything does not come in neat ready made packages, and we have to adapt”
That is a victim mentality. Nothing we can do about it. Accept the bad things and work with it as best you can.
It’s coping. And it’s what we do regardless of our wishes. Everybody copes.
But I’m talking about planning rather than accepting the happenstance of what we find around us.
_I_ don’t have a community plan at hand ready to franchise the plans for for you to build your own city with.
But the point of politics _is_ shaping the world around us by using whatever funds we contribute for them to work with and all of the competing personalities for what that future would be like.
You have to know what shape you want to see and engage accordingly.