Breach to the open!

REMBRANDT, The Sacrifice of Abraham, 1635, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

1) Religious institutions are overrun by nepotism, corruption and incompetence. If you are a FFB you might have been desensitized to this fact, you might have been someone who benefits from nepotism, yet the corroding stench of this realty will fumigate into the nostrils of BTs and FFBs equally.
2) Religious discourse is meandering in a cul-de-sac unable to breach to the open road of confronting and integrating modernity.
3) Our leaders are but the shadows of the former selves, in some cases literally shadows.
4) Disengagement from the modern workforce has created two alternative career paths for a religious Jew: entrepreneurial trickery or debilitating reliance on the government subsidies. Even when you join the workforce, the society pays you for 2.3 children not for 5 or even 10.
5) If you are a thinking BT or FFB you are surrounded by the well meaning clones who are indoctrinated and conditioned for the mediocre logic. You are confronted by people for whom party allegiances have supplanted decency.
6) And finally you are drenched in despair because of the abandonment by the traditional Jews of the legacy of our forefather Avrohom who came from the other side of the river and called his children Ivrym as a reminder. In the interest of the short term survival Jews have deserted the path of searching for the beyond and instead circled the wagons firmly implanting their existence in the inert mud.

All of the above mentioned fundamental conditions existed before and during the administration of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. His inability to even slightly dent the curses of the exile renders his legacy as a spectacular failure. He would not be first though.