Major and minor distractions seem relentless... those, along with constant SYMBOLIC victories that do NOTHING to actually move us forward, or dismantle the SoWS that is at the foundation of our terror, and the seeming need on our part to engage those who attack, oppose and oppress us, can cause us to use time addressing the problem rather than using that time to work on escaping the system that perpetuates WS as well as our oppression.