"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing oriented society to a person oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A nation can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bandruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy." Beyond Vietnam, April 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr.
(My thanks to Casandra of Taos, NM for the great link honoring Martin Luther King, Jr)
Regrettably, in reading King's words today, the nation has degenerated--not progressed--since he spoke them nearly forty years ago. We now live in a country teetering on chasm's edge, in the hands of 'compassionate conservatism'.
We cannot expect security at the hands of those who have endangered us all.
And we can't buy peace by undermining it and charging the high costs of our militarism to our grandkids. Enrichment of the people does not come by bankrupting their nation's treasury.
Compassion isn't possible from leadership while it's slopping on the nation's wealth and gagging on it's own greed while doing so.
Under this regime, the leadership of illegimates and incompetents in control is choking on the corruptions of its own excesses of power and wealth grabbing.
And don't expect help from mainstream media, no longer the watchdogs of government, but its lapdogs instead.
In short, don't expect solutions from this government when it is the very source of our problems.
I heard a comment last evening that most blogs are "like shouting out the window." That may be so, but it's obvious we're not going to get solutions where we're presently seeking 'em. Shouting out the window is one thing among several small things Dada can do. Hopefully the choir of voices will grow deafening real soon.
Happy birthday, Rev. King. Dada hopes we will have a country that is still honoring your life and words another forty years from now!
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