I couldn't agree more, Little Hawk.

I keep recalling a radio interview I heard some months ago. The man being interviewed was describing a meeting he had attended. It was a meeting of African-Americans who were still not feeling the benefits of the Civil Rights movement, and several were bemoaning the fact that they didn't have any strong leaders like Martin Luther King to keep the momentum going. The interviewee said that this discouraging talk went on for some time before a teen-aged girl got up and let blast. She said she was disgusted by the defeatism displayed by the people there and said, "You're all sitting around waiting for someone to lead you. And you don't realize that Martin Luther King may have felt the same way at one time, but then realized that he had to be the leader he was waiting for! You are the leaders that you are waiting for. Now, stop whining and get to work!"

That's why I object to anything that promotes a feeling of hopelessness and encourages people to just sit back and say, "Oh, what the hell! It's futile, so why should I even bother?" And then just give up.

Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "A few people can make a difference. In fact, all the important changes that have ever been made have started with a very few people with an idea."

Don Firth