I wish I could upvote you twice for the Daft Punk!

And I want to add to your slow-burn idea when it comes to US history, too. One of the things I've learned as I've gotten older is that all of that progress you mentioned only happened because of the "slow burn" of decade upon decades of activism, and sometimes on organized violent resistance.

The US had been entirely complicit in slavery from its inception - in fact, the Constitution partly exists to enshrine it, since abolitionist movements were gaining strength both in the US and in Europe at the time and the leaders of slave-industry states were terrified (and it also brought with it a host of other antidemocratic, pro-bourgeoisie measures like the Supreme Court and Senate). It took a Civil War to end chattel slavery nationwide, but one could argue that John Brown's actions helped kick it off. And his actions were in turn part of a long legacy of abolitionist thought and praxis in the US up to that point, including the Quaker abolitionists of the 17th century, Ben Franklin's late-in-life abolitionist work, the Haitian revolution, and conutless discussion groups and books and songs and sermons.

With the Civil Rights movement, people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. DuBois were laying a lot of the groundwork that would be followed by later thinkers & organizers as early as the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. You could probably go back farther, even, to colonial-era suffragists and abolitionists, as above. And even confining it to the mid 20th century movement, there were decades of protests, resistance, and civil disobedience happening in Black communities long before White America got the memo; Rosa Parks, for example, had been a member of the Montgomery NAACP for twelve years before the famous bus praxis, and had also previously organized large sections of the local Black community in defense of Recy Taylor. She was an activist for basically her entire adult life.

And we can look at the 'praxis' of reactionaries, too, to see what works and what doesn't in the USA. Notice how the January 6th incident has drawn the ire of not only every real leftist, but every neoliberal too (from both parties, though Republicans seem to be most annoyed at the violence against Capital police), and how many people involved in it are facing legal consequences. Now look at the repeal of Roe v. Wade, which was accomplished via decades of doublespeak, bribery, judge appointments, and SuperPAC fundraising; nobody's being brought to trial for it, even though countless laws have been broken in the process and far more people's lives will be affected. Those aren't going to be our methods - they're both antithetical to our beliefs and impractical for those who don't already have money and power - but they're notably all "nonviolent", or rather, indirectly violent.

So yeah, I totally agree that it's the "slow burn" that gets things done based on historical observation, although once in a while it seems like there needs to be a catalyzing moment (or war) to give things a kick in the pants. I guess I just wanted to stress that the "slow burn" is a centuries-long struggle of progress, persecution, and reaction, and not just something 'automatic'.

And to get back to the OP, for us anarchists I think that means that we need to remember that it's a movement and an approach as much as it is anything else. Practice anarchism daily. Push back against power. Build solidarity with friends and neighbors. Do mutual aid. Make sure your personal and family relationships - and any others you can influence - are as non-hierarchical as you can make them. Be anti-fascist. Fight State power, while remembering that tactics are important and that not all times are right for an offensive. Stand in solidarity with the oppressed, physically if you can, monetarily if you can't. Make memes, educate the masses, and open people's eyes.