The dream

His dream has come true, not Martin Luther King’s, but Bertrand Russell’s, the apothegmatist
(I can’t say or pronounce it), a master of terse sayings who put his dream in to clever, aphoristic words. What we need is a ‘world-wide revolt’ against American ‘capitalist imperialism,’ he said. Our Congress just ushered in this radical, albeit typical, request from Bertrand Russell. Russell exercised influence for almost a century, wasting his time and talent, scribbling away or talking nonsense, on one insane cause after another. Being an intellectual snob (disconnected from reality and people on the ground) he stated that “common sense embodies the metaphysics of savages.” Haven’t we heard this claim lately from political elites commenting on the ‘tea baggers’ protesting the takeover of our country by Obama and his progressive agenda?

Happy New Year 2010, the dream lives on.