You ain't gonna do shit

[MADem]

164. So....what's the answer? To "not do shit?"

Roll over?

Give up?

Die?


Close up shop, DU, let's all go play video games?

I don't find Gloom and Doom/Fuck It to be a terribly helpful strategy.

Of course, when I suggest that people take to the streets and the mall in DC in a single-issue (not a United for Piece of the Pie and Just-Is "managed" effort) complaint, I am told that's too "old school" and useless and won't work. I think it's better than doing nothing, but it takes an expenditure of energy. I'm not talking about pitching a tent and engaging in urban camping, I' talking about single issue "March on Washington" type actions that can happen on the mall or in front of your congressperson's district office.

It didn't hurt during the Vietnam War....of course, it didn't work right away--ya had to keep doing it, every weekend -- and the occasional weekdays on college campuses. It took years. I wasn't the "best" protester, not by a long shot, I was a rank amateur compared to most I knew, and I went to so many protests I lost count.

No one has the will or the patience or the energy to do this kind of thing these days. It's either too much exercise, too much of an expenditure of time, too much time away from the wi-fi, or something. People sit in front of screens, be they computer or TV, and put up with less. They entertain the pain away. They haven't reached the breaking point, perhaps...?

The person with the answer to this problem, who will find The Way to reach the "Mad as Hell, Not Gonna Take It Anymore" crowd and motivate them to action, will be the hero of the younger generation--and the older ones, too.