There's a balancing act between what needs to be done, what I can be effective at, and what I can motivate myself to do. I've found that if I let what needs to be done dominate, I end up doing nothing.

One of the insidious things about the way destruction is built into the system is that there are all sorts of places where participating is lower-overhead than not participating. If you want to "play defense" as it were, and never be complicit, if that's even possible it would inevitably take all of your resources just to manage it.

So I'm willing to take some of that lower overhead from complicity and inject it into playing offense in the areas where I'm more effective. Like I said before, I have no idea if I'm doing it efficiently, but most of the time I'm able to do worthwhile things, and that's important. (What we'd call "protagging" in the fiction world: taking an active role in your circumstance.)