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I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…
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Prescience defined.
This has nothing to do with a specifically racial problem. One could excise the word ‘white” from that statement…in fact excise anything whatsoever that specifically relates to the racial inequities that Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting at the time…and the resultant statement would be no less true. Now, then, and quite probably in the foreseeable future as well.
Over the past years I have been gravely disappointed with the U.S. moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the moderate is more devoted to “order” than to justice and prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the very presence of justice…
And there you have it.
The Obama/HRC condition in a nutshell.
Preferring “a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the very presence of justice.”
I found the above MLK Jr. quote in a Counterpunch article which also contained this one by Antonio Gramsci (Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks [1926-37]) I guess being in prison allows one to focus the mind much as did the prospect of imminent execution for Samuel Johnson when he said “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
The intellectuals are the dominant group’s `deputies,’ exercising the subaltern functions of social hegemony and political government.
Not so much “prescience” as a precise description of how captive so-called intellectuals…read “Those who populate the upper ends of academia and the DC think tank establishment”…act in the interests of maintaining the Permanent Government’s stranglehold on the entire system as it now stands in the U.S.
Beware the “moderates,” brethren and sistren. They are nothing but the velvet glove that is presently being tasked with hiding the iron hand of universal, surveillance-operated and enforced totalitarianism.
The New Age version thereof:
Bet on it.
AG
