Somebody has to do it.

"One of the core messages in the book comes up perhaps three times during the adventures of the gang: Why are we doing this? Why are we risking prison, why are we risking being lynched or shot by construction site guards or other vigilantes? Why are we spending our time and our money in what we know is ultimately a futile effort to halt the destruction of our lovely and loved lands? The answer is given verbally once, but understood when later asked: "Somebody has to do it." In this Abbey is beseeching all who read his work to understand that the responsibility to safeguard and fight for our clean, wide open, unspoiled spaces is ultimately ours. The law-abiding among us can fight and struggle against The Machine, too. We can use our keyboards and telephones, and we can use our bank accounts to oppose The Machine instead of the monkey wrench. Futility be damned! It's our responsibility, he says, individually to fight and oppose the despoilment of our lands for the enrichment of the few - even when we ourselves are included in 'the few'.


-an exuberant wikipedia editor"
-Tsrhynamios away message Monday november 14th
thanks aleex. :)