Winnie Mading wrote:

"... This is why I feel that multifaceted approaches are needed.  We need
to keep speaking out, we need to write to newspapers/magazines that
give misleading or false information.  We need the National Ad
campaign.  We need whatever other ways there are to "chip away" at
the firmly entrenched "just fine" view.

I saw a clip on one of the "crazy video" TV shows that makes a good
comparison.  Some guys had made a cannon that shot bowling balls.
After sinking motorboats and smasking small objects, they decided to
attack a concrete block silo that needed to be razed.  The first 20
or so bowling balls just made holes in the base of the silo, but it
continued to stand.  The aim was very good, so it wasn't just
haphazard hitting.  The base was eventually riddled with holes and
they were about to give up because they ran out of bowling balls.
Then, gradually at first, the silo began to lean and did come
crashing to the ground.  I think our approach to changing attitudes
compares very well.  It takes a lot more "bowling balls" to bring
down this silo of attitude, but if we keep working at it and don't
keep aiming at the same spot, but work at the entire "base" of the
attitude, this "silo" will eventually tumble.  We have to be patient
and persistent."

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Thanks, Winnie -- that image works for me, and follows the rules of
mnemonics to boot!  And Lactnet can help with the aim -- as shown by Marsha
Walker's post about hospital inservices in the same digest.

Ruth Piatak, LLL Leader
Plano, TX

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