“The sad truth is that 85% of the activist agendas are too poorly structured to have any significant effect other than as a pressure valve for the stress produced in the people who care by the issues they care about. We can’t put the fires out one leaf at a time. The trunk is on fire, and if we don’t attend that, we’re dead in the water. What is that trunk? It’s the fact that our relationships with language, knowledge, meaning, and nature are broken. They have become hyper-abstracted, and now attack what they were meant to preserve.”

— an anonymous informant