Every day I feel heartened that I’m not the only one who feels this way, and that there are a lot of us.

Not just a 'Hope' here--the Dude's Got Stats. So I can share with him something else,
~Proof that OTHERS are increasingly aware of the ABYSS (we now share...with penguins)
You know: where all stand around a cliff-let, ready to jump-in and go fishing?

Their process is: Everyone starts waving around their flippers--with gusto.
Eventually One loses balance and falls/dives-into the sea (full of unknown-) predators??
When ... If ... s/he surfaces, intact:
The rest of the troops go for lunch, not unwary--but slightly reassured.

The dis-USA: waiting to Plunge-In and Take an unmistakably-Clear Stand against the US-Taliban.
Are such USAians ... yet ... sufficiently reassured that they HAVE 'company'?
What, ever.. shall 'they' be waiting-for, next ... One Asks (vehemently, at times)

G O D O T ???

Then --> ... Years ... Decades ... -->||

We're still working on it. Against that Indifference-barrier.
(But then, since 9-27-62 publication--shortly before Cuba-near-WW-III--the Rate of Distractions has steadily risen;
With now nonillions of transistor-junctions humming: it continues to rise, exponentially.
Good Signal still -vs- perpetually-worsening Noise.

I doubt that we HAVE the time left to, confab? with one-demented-hand at a time, patiently seeking at least one Aha!! and hoping for an epiphany.
It's going to be a Mass-media War; War for the eyeballs of enough already-influential Icons: because we are all 'ants' now, in the face of Famousness.