Excellent, and very significant that Dr King's much repeated quote on riots as the voice of the unheard has hardly been used at all about far right riots.
Wow - that is brilliantly articulated. Those parallels have been floating around in the back of my mind, but Vicki has pulled the threads together so well. Brilliant article, thank you!
I don't think that there is any mention of King's religious faith in this article. This is interesting, it as though we are re-inventing King for our secular times. But without his religious faith King could be just another liberal critic or commentator, we are perhaps using the image and authority of King to support our own ideas.
There's a much used quote by Marx, here it is:
'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people'.
So why King and not Marx? For that matter why King but not Jesus. Today we don't believe in Marx or in Jesus, but many believe in all kinds or weird and wonderful things. We've lost Marx and that's fine, but we've also lost a sense of material reality, for example how can we revitalise the UK economy? This requires ingenuity, political will and co-operation beyond the failed economic models of left and right. People are turning to mythical and spiritual solutions and cultural explanations for our problems. Who is Vicki calling to action? The political establishment? No doubt they will assure you that they share your hopes, they might not however admit that they have no answer to our economic malaise (we live in hope). Is Vicky appealing to the poor and oppressed (and the violent rioters)... to pray to god? Pray to King?
'Unheard' may be a cop out for those in power, we might prefer to say ignored, or treated with contempt. King was also a political strategist and he knew that he could not achieve his aims by violence. The 'unheard' are on their way to jail as we speak.
Love your content! Have you ever came across the book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychologist. I highly recommend it if you haven’t! Keep up the excellent writing!
Oh no. Your take is incredibly shallow, if it’s honest. There is war on the citizens of western nations being perpetrated by internationalist elites. It gets framed as being race, but it’s really about destroying national identity. They import millions of people, a significant portion of which have no interest in being citizens of the new nation or culture. But they are interested in reaping the benefits of a more functional culture — even if it’s to license their bad behavior. So behave badly a great many do. With relish. And then there’s you — and yes this is just my assessment of you: you’re the collaborator. You and folks like you are there to make sure the invading population’s worst actors are kept out there to terrorize both their communities and the host community. You’re there to make sure the situation spins out of control when people see there is no justice when the perp is an invader. That’s what I see when I read your writing. I see your as part of that effort.
Excellent, and very significant that Dr King's much repeated quote on riots as the voice of the unheard has hardly been used at all about far right riots.
Wow - that is brilliantly articulated. Those parallels have been floating around in the back of my mind, but Vicki has pulled the threads together so well. Brilliant article, thank you!
I don't think that there is any mention of King's religious faith in this article. This is interesting, it as though we are re-inventing King for our secular times. But without his religious faith King could be just another liberal critic or commentator, we are perhaps using the image and authority of King to support our own ideas.
There's a much used quote by Marx, here it is:
'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people'.
So why King and not Marx? For that matter why King but not Jesus. Today we don't believe in Marx or in Jesus, but many believe in all kinds or weird and wonderful things. We've lost Marx and that's fine, but we've also lost a sense of material reality, for example how can we revitalise the UK economy? This requires ingenuity, political will and co-operation beyond the failed economic models of left and right. People are turning to mythical and spiritual solutions and cultural explanations for our problems. Who is Vicki calling to action? The political establishment? No doubt they will assure you that they share your hopes, they might not however admit that they have no answer to our economic malaise (we live in hope). Is Vicky appealing to the poor and oppressed (and the violent rioters)... to pray to god? Pray to King?
'Unheard' may be a cop out for those in power, we might prefer to say ignored, or treated with contempt. King was also a political strategist and he knew that he could not achieve his aims by violence. The 'unheard' are on their way to jail as we speak.
Good luck with that. The positive vision remains undefined. I could tell you what it could be, but Sir Keir would not accept it.
Love your content! Have you ever came across the book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychologist. I highly recommend it if you haven’t! Keep up the excellent writing!
Oh no. Your take is incredibly shallow, if it’s honest. There is war on the citizens of western nations being perpetrated by internationalist elites. It gets framed as being race, but it’s really about destroying national identity. They import millions of people, a significant portion of which have no interest in being citizens of the new nation or culture. But they are interested in reaping the benefits of a more functional culture — even if it’s to license their bad behavior. So behave badly a great many do. With relish. And then there’s you — and yes this is just my assessment of you: you’re the collaborator. You and folks like you are there to make sure the invading population’s worst actors are kept out there to terrorize both their communities and the host community. You’re there to make sure the situation spins out of control when people see there is no justice when the perp is an invader. That’s what I see when I read your writing. I see your as part of that effort.