“Legitimate power always includes attentiveness to justice, When power is not attentive to justice it cannot endure. This is a summons to us to keep the agenda of justice for the vulnerable alive and front and center to maintain a kind of subversive stance toward power.
The market ideology is now the new form of imperial power and many of us, without any critical reflection, have signed onto that and organized our lives in that way…”
Walter Brueggemann
“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“In the eyes of the empire builders men are not men, but instruments.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
SJW’s would appreciate those quotes.
The powerful believe that ordinary people are mere pawns in the game. What the powerful people don’t understand is that they are the pawns of power itself. Power rules them, not the other way round. They serve power. It doesn’t serve them. Power only serves itself, and is ever more demanding of its’ servants.