@chai2,
something just popped in my mind.
my sentiments, btw, pretty much echo shewolfs.
I can change my little corner of the world, and maybe have a small positive influence in some way on someone else.
However, if I sound like a wild eyed zealot, people are going to turn their backs on me.
Having such extreme anger at large systems is, to me, useless.
The best thing most of us can do is live the best, most ethical way we know how.
If that's not enough, well, it's all I have to give.
anyway, was popped into my head was one of the threads that was going on back during and after hurricaine katrina.
Someone was just apoplectic about the way it was being handled, George Bush should die, and all that.
I asked the question, twice, "What would you do, right now, if you were the president?"
I really wanted to know. I mean, if a person thinks something is being handled poorly, give some suggestions as to what we should be doing, and how.
I never got an answer.
That person, as far as I was concerned, just wanted to bitch.
If my hands have to be calloused, I don't want them to be that way because I was fighting. I want them to be that way because I doing something positive for myself. The best thing is for that to influence someone else.