“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good”
King, M.L. Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. chapter two.
Interestingly enough several of those involved probably thought that they were morally right at the beginning and only one began to question whether they had been right in the first place though appeared too weak to stand up or walk away. One of those concerned said that their motivation was to destroy others who she believed were weak and one who believed in the superiority of their race above all others in all matters. The others seemed to either not to want to understand what was going on or blow which ever way the wind carried them. What characterised all these people in the end was their moral weakness and the fact that as long as they perpetuated the wrong they were doing the more contaminated, diseased and corrupted they became by their own self justifications for their actions.
There were many casualties in this conflict but because they held power and they were surrounded by those who had also done wrong so nothing touched them. They clapped and celebrated as others suffered or the good that had prevailed crumbled about them. They didn’t care because they had long ago lost their humanity. They did not realise that what they thought they were building had it’s shaky foundations in misery and contempt for warmth, love, and learning and would therefore never flourish. They tried to drive wedges between friends and lied and threatened those who had worked hard to bring truth and light to a dark bad spirited place. Corruption festered at the core like a cancer. One suicidal self-hating and two-faced, misandrous, another treacherous scheming, bigoted and Machiavellian, endlessly but clumsily plotting to seize power -revealed by her schadenfreude induced enthusiasm. The others corrupted, manipulated, misinformed, weak, wretched, and shambling.
They fed leech like on the goodwill that those who looked to them, but did not know their true nature, gave them much in all innocence. They worked hard for the forces of darkness in the belief that they were right and anyone who opposed them was wrong, offensive and ignorant. They criticised those who left as misguided, inferior or undesirable and embraced anyone who supported them no matter what their motivation or effectiveness. The biggest offence, as far as they were concerned, was to question their absolute rule and if this ever happened then you could expect every thing that you were, or anything they could make up, to be turned against you until they were satisfied that you were no longer a threat. Like a bitter divorce everything would be twisted to make monsters of loving people and self destructive battles fought for the hearts and minds of the children.
So we should feel sorry for them and pity them because what is founded on falsehood, contempt, disease and trickery will not prevail – will it?. They will have no luck and their happiness too will be short lived. Should the good walk away or fight from within? Analysis Spock. ‘In this case the internal contradictions were so great that walking away is the best strategy as to stay would merely serve to prop up a corrupt crumbling institution’. Nuff said.
