RashyNullPlanet

I’ve been chipping away at the essays in Martin Luther King’s “Why We Can’t Wait” for a little while now. In “The Summer of Our Discontent”, King writes:

The old order ends, no matter what Bastilles remain, when the enslaved, within themselves, bury the psychology of servitude.

Very, very few voters I’ve met realize they’re selling themselves into slavery when they presume to make decisions about other people’s lives. They cast their vote, as if they believe it were some sacrament to impose their mere preferences on their neighbors.

I see no reason to hope that any of these votistas will ever recognize that they’re propping up a structure that is devouring them.

The old order will never end, so long as voters refuse to question what they’re doing to themselves and their neighbors.