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title: 'Chaos or Community'
date: '2018-01-01T08:50:41-05:00'
permalink: /chaos-or-community/
tags:
    - reflecting
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> “In the book *Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community*, Martin Luther King, Jr. told the citizens of this nation, with prophetic insight, that we would be unable to go forward if we did not experience a ‘true revolution of values.’ He assured us that
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> ‘the stability of the large world house which is ours will involve a revolution of values to accompany the scientific and freedom revolutions engulfing the earth. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing”-oriented society to a “person”-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A civilization can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy.’
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> Today, we live in the midst of that floundering. We live in chaos, uncertain about the possibility of building and sustaining community.”
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> <cite>bell hooks, *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom* (1994)</cite>