‘So you’re here to ship silver back to those mutinying sepoys, are you?’ Perhaps he should, Robin almost said. Perhaps that’s precisely what the world needs. But he stopped himself before he opened his mouth. Not because he was afraid of breaking Griffin’s confidence, but because he could not bear how this confession would shatter the life they’d built for themselves.
The fear of breaking the status quo is all encompassing. Really the only way to make a system better is to completely dismantle it and build again from the ground up but that comes with so much uncertainty even people being mistreated by the system may not want to take that leap.
It makes me wonder what I'm willing to and not willing to give up in pursuits of better reform.
