Don't mourn, analyze. Then act--decisively.
> Yeah, exhortation is pretty useless without explanation, and
irritating even
> then. The version that's more revealing (when it comes to
activistism) is
> 'don't agonize, organize!' (Flo Kennedy?) which we translate around
here as
> 'don't analyze, organize!' or 'beat your head against that wall some
more, and with
> additional vigor.' But the impulse is not all wrong, to encourage
ourselves
> and others not to retreat into domesticity or professionalism or
hedonism or
> whatever other avenues might be open, just because the going gets
tougher,
> which it will.