I have rarely done this, but there is a blog entry by Claire Wolfe that is so good, I'm going to give you a taste and then send you there to read the rest.
The menace of “do somethingness"
You know how people are always trying to find solutions to
gigantic problems, and (because their only tool is government), making a worse
mess of everything? Blame “do somethingness.” If we could only end the “do
something” plague, clever, independent people might actually set about coming up
with real solutions to real-world messes. ...Read the rest...
Wasn't that wonderful? Spread it around to "those who don't get it", but who might someday.
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