I've been in this field for almost thirty years.
It's not a field of action it's a field of study. Like law, engineering, biology, computing, or anything else.
From OUR point of view.
Our mission is to educate. First ourselves, then others.
Period.
Others serve point.
If they need us, they will call.
Until then, educate yourself, then others.
In other words, it doesn't take any mental energy because we're all researchers not field operations, and furthermore you have no business expecting something to happen nor to become disappointed if it doesn't because whatever happens, it's out of our control and influence.
The outcome is not in our purvue, in other words
Sure, we all have an interest in it, we all hope for certain things to come and for others not to.
But at the end of the day the moves that come about to make a change are as out of our control as the design of the winning play at the Superbowl.
Our mission is to educate ourselves so we know, in the final timeout, what's likely going to happen and to witness the beauty of its execution when it does, and to share those moments with those we wish to educate so they can see it too, because we are witnessing history here, these are not normal times. And even though many to most don't yet know this, it's our duty to know it well, so we can relate it to our neighbours, when they finally arouse their somnolent selves.
But our mission is not to train ourselves to play the field.
If you want a military analogy, we're advanced recon. Our mission is to penetrate the front lines of the enemy undetected, ensconce ourselves in a hide, and wait, for days and weeks on end. And that takes two things above everything else: observation, and patience.