To be an agent of change you have to be willing to brush past your own cynicism and confront actual problems, otherwise you’re just a political hack or worse, acting in the interest of those who are part ad parcel of the problem itself.

Here is an ascending bottom to top scale of changes:

Friend of the Problem/Resistance to change

Unwitting Ideological Friend of the Problem

Timid Reformist

Active Yet Dualistically/ Philosophically Captured Reformist (Ex. Capitalist vs Socialist)

*************************************************** Leaving the Reformist Mindset

Integrative Conceptual/Paradigmatic Activist/Systems Philosopher

Aware of the Concept of the Mega-Paradigm Change