A student last year submitted an opera in her final project, about the fact that everyone suffers from a perspective that they are flawed and seeking to correct the flaw. It manifests in both the external world and the inner world. From the disappointment people have with government or institutions or pollution to themselves not exercising or believing themselves addicted to this or that. She wrote about the fact that fixating on the flaws as one perceives them, keeps one stuck or tout it another way, since their flaws are experienced ceaselessly, they remain in these positions forever plus they posited people themselves are cells in the body of life, everything from Trump’s sneer to hornets to kim chee – all just cells in the larger body of life itself, doing exactly what life itself wants. In essence the person fixated on flaws (which they never run out of), is doing exactly as life expects. They even had a song called “Working For Life”. In the 1rst act a man tries to change the world, in the 2cnd he is overcome by his failures, in the 3rd he tries to change himself instead and that was the part with most interesting songs, to me anyway, because in those pieces she explored an angle that seemed more unique. One where the person who gets closest to a real experience of change, does so by creating a new relationship towards the dilemma they are looped into. One where they see a certain futility in identifying, or complaining, about the flaw and only in that space precisely, find space to pivot.