Perceived options:

1. Trust that things as they are is as they should be — we have no choice to change things.

2. Maybe some external circumstance or person will come in and force change us from the outside.

Reality:

It is possible that no change will ever be instituted upon us. It is possible that the earth will never quake and burn and destroy a third of all life upon it. It is possible that no foreign army will ever invade our nation and institute a martial law of terror as punishment for the immorality of its people.