"We're such a culture that is about doing. Are we such a busy, crazy, manic culture? Meditation says no," he said. "You start with being. You start with peace in your own heart. And then it spreads."
People have not yet gotten energized for the long fight ahead, he said. Circumstances will spur action, he said.
"Things haven't gotten bad enough. But they will."
Here's a man who is sure things will get much worse, yet believes there's a point to trudging around for six hours wearing a sign. Do you consider him an optimist or a pessimist or some weird blend -- an opti-pessimist?
UPDATE: The email is showing enough of a difference of opinion that I thought a blogpoll was in order.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Jim Lindgren at Volokh Conspiracy responds with a comparison of the number of Americans dead in Iraq to the number who died in Vietnam.
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