In honor of MLK
In honor of the great ones Today, as I contemplate and seek to honor the great man - Martin Luther King, Jr. - I am struck by the feeling that I am living through the 1960's again. Those years - when I was quite young - I experienced only tangentially and then more fully in later years as I revisited that time of great upheaval. There was great fear of the widespread destruction that could result from a nuclear war and the insanity of MAD (mutually assured destruction). There was great fear of societal transformation as oppressed citizens - both blacks and women - revolted. As they pushed hard against their treatment as "less than" and second class by the ruling elite and the lazy calm of the status quo. In the midst of this fear and upheaval, there were many who saw opportunity to further inflame those fears and profit in the midst of upheaval. The corporate profiteers who were very invested in the fear of nuclear war saw great opportunity in the predicta...