Wink on turning the cheek
A meditation on tactical agility and initiative for Martin Luther King Day
The Powers That Be literally stand on their dignity. Nothing takes away their potency faster than deft lampooning. By refusing to be awed by their power, the powerless are emboldened to seize the initiative, even where structural change is not possible. This message, far from being a counsel of perfection unattainable in this life, is a practical, strategic measure for empowering the oppressed. It provides a hint of how to take on the entire system in a way that unmasks its essential cruelty and to burlesque its pretensions to justice, law, and order.
Jim:
“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.” –Von Mises
18 January 2008, 5:20 pmBela Berg:
Mises therefore advocated socialism, omnipotent government and bureaucracy.
20 January 2008, 6:11 pmMasa:
Never kill evil outright. The trickster and warrior clowns stopped more evil violence with their wit, than lovers with their lust, or fools with their anger and rage….
22 January 2008, 1:55 amindigenous quote/North America