Originally Posted by KnightOfSappho

We could get into media reform which is important to me.... I suspect that we share the same ideas on that so it would be a 'preaching to the choir' situation.


I agree that apathy is the great enemy. I believe that humans, like every other animal has two basic motivations; gain pleasure and avoid pain. The latter is the stronger of the two.

If people percieve that the loss (pain) is greater than the potential gain (pleasure) they will do little or nothing. MLK did not have to deal with college students bogged down with debt nor the mass media constantly getting people to buy what they could not afford. (There were no credit cards in that day.)

The next one to emerge, and it will eventually happen, will have all of that to overcome before they can get the people to react.



Agreed.




He did. And all of us can be proud of that. Clearly there is more work to do, but he did wonderful things.