Yes, yes. Don't do a small good thing because you can't do a friggin huge good thing. And violent methods to counter violence ARE violence, make no mistake. And as such they have a number problems, cheifest being that they are kinda necesary. And everyone who gets into the school you applied to or got the job you deserve is underqualified, cheifly in that they are Not You.

   I'm not aware of any ancestors of mine who were slave-owners but the point is advantages that are mine here and now, regardless, which I might like to think are earned by divine right and richly deserved. I think it's pointless to be a refusnik and not accept those advantages, generally, when they come to me. But not with a vain notion that I have them because things are so intrinsically fair. And then sometimes they don't come, probably because I'm an oppressed white man, damn it! Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?

   In photography, Nicole C, I took dead-level exposures that kept resulting in thin negatives. No matter how I checked my developing, temperatures, everything, it still came out that way. People thought I had to be doing something wrong. Despite every care I could take, despite all the best intentions and care I could muster, I couldn't seem to fix the results I got. I So I started exposing with the needle high, over-estimating a little one way. Did it fix the fact that I take lousy photographs? No. But at least I got better prints of my lousy pictures.