Staci Collins on The Simple Heart

[Staci Collins]

Amazing breadth of topics covered so competently! Wow, still digesting. & shared with all I know! Which is why I understand why you did not get into corruption - which, as has been commented below - is one of the things that has always been most in our way. what Dr. King noted in his speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (4/4/67) -https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

"Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the [poverty] program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. "

I'm curious about how we overcome or blast through the hormonal charge to power of the socio/psychopath types and the cults they socialize around them...it does seem that's a key barrier so often overlooked by activists and the Professional Management Class (PMC) who mostly have to work for them to feed their families...e.g. astrophysicists were corruptly socialized to create the 2008 derivatives that broke the banks worldwide. That goes on daily. Let alone Secrets of Playboy - Hugh Hefner - a king of sociopathic socialization.

To further this discussion - poorpeoplescampaign.org is organizing up to Apr 4th nationwide readings of Dr. King's speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_xYIpdeNM | https://forms.gle/i5TR1Y1J6tx3yX7D8

Assume you prob know about Erica Chenoweth's study: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 - the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict. https://www.momentumcommunity.org/webinars - her discussing it!