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the lack of focus shown by the two main protest movements of the last few years demonstrate this with disturbing clarity. the tea party movement began with a righteous anger regarding over-expansion of governmental power, and that movement’s leadership looks to have been co-opted by right wing nutjobs who believe that governmental power is fine to extend into our personal lives, just not our checkbooks. the occupy movements all began with righteous indignation about, as you so perfectly put it, “…an unfair play­ing field, one that enabled the cheaters and manip­u­la­tors to suc­ceed while nor­mal peo­ple con­tin­ued to suf­fer.”, but blew up into a collectivist action crying out for government-funded college educations, complete debt expulsion and other absurdly over-the-top freebies. in both cases the the original symptom of focus was just and somewhat universally agreeable, but once things started to get broader-spectrum the message was corrupted for most people and we’re left with the damn symptoms all the same because nearly everyone agrees that they are better than anything coming from the minds of wingnuts and whiners.

we the people just are not built to overhaul something of this magnitude overnight because we don’t all want the same thing. and so we will need to treat it symptom-by-symptom until the power brokers are turned over slowly but surely, because if we throw them all out in one fell swoop the mess left behind will be total anarchy. we just won’t be able to agree on anything new quickly enough to keep it all from falling apart completely.

I have found the only thing that works for spare time is to set the Pomodoro timer and just start working. Left to my own devices, nothing will ever get done. I’ve heard good things about that book, I’ll have to put it on my “to read” list.