MLK Day

A rendezvous with chaos

Modern man is presently having a rendezvous with chaos, not merely because of human badness, but also because of human stupidity. If Western civilization continues to degenerate until it, like twenty-four of its predecessors, falls hopelessly into a bottomless void, the cause will be not only its undeniable sinfulness, but also its appalling blindness. And if American democracy gradually disintegrates it will be due as much to a lack of insight as to a lack of commitment to right.

- MLK, Love in Action. 1963.