MLK,

 

Since I can tell the difference between Disembodied Language (DL) and Embodied Language (EL), I want you to know – on Martin Luther King Day – that the reverend, like you, only knows about DL. I listened to his entire speech on Democracy Now. I object to his bombastic, acted, phony, manipulative way of talking, which, in my opinion, has always been the real problem, but nobody wants to address it.

 

Let’s look at some of the things he said. The very fact that MLK talked politics, shows that he wasn’t into EL, but into DL, as all political discourse is DL. Supposedly, politics and power, is more important than EL, but it isn’t and that is exactly, why things are still as bad as they are today. MLK continuously speaks about we, as he is addressing the group of people, who believes in his dream. However, in EL, there is no group to be addressed. The only group which is addressed by anyone who engages in EL, is the one people inevitably create, due to their DL. It doesn’t matter what belief or ideal they have, as all those who believe to belong to groups, are out of touch with themselves. Moreover, MLK pitted us versus them. Everyone who celebrates his legacy,  does exactly the same. Nothing has really changed!         

 

MLK challenges other so-called leaders, but those who have EL, don’t care about leaders, as they don’t believe in any power higher than themselves. MLK claims to know the truth, because he is a man of God, but anyone who has EL, knows such religious mumbo-jumbo has always prevented us from living our lives as individuals. I don’t talk about American foreign policy here, but refer to the fact that we either engage in DL or EL, as I hear the difference. You could hear the difference too, if you listened.  

Wars are the inevitable consequences of our usual way of talking, which is DL, but MLK, like everyone else, engages in DL, while pretending to have EL, by “giving a voice to the voiceless”. MLK, like so many others, pits the wealthy against the poor, but he is unable to recognize, that the real issue is whether we engage in DL or in EL. MLK never promoted EL, but advocated struggle and struggle is the very essence of DL.     

MLK insist “this madness must cease” and “we must stop now”, but never acknowledges the irrefutable fact, that each of us must stop our DL. One doesn’t stop one’s DL by claiming that one is “a child of God” or “a brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam”. One continues to have DL, by pretending to “speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.” In DL, one deludes oneself into believing that one does something “for the poor of America, who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam.” In DL, one ridiculously claims to “speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken.” In EL, by contrast, one creates and lives in one’s own world. Once we have ongoing EL, we have stopped the war that is fought with our words. Stopping that treacherous war is far more important than preventing soldiers from dying in battle. Once  that war has been stopped, there will be no battle.   

Also “the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam” have never addressed DL. They are too concerned about their power within the Vietnamese culture. To me, as someone with ongoing EL, America is not the “the image of revolution, freedom and democracy”, but the country of transcending every form of tribalism. Supposedly, we are still in a battle for the soul of this  nation, but the real issue is, whether we are going to recognize the great difference between DL and EL.

It is hard to come to terms with the facts, but MLK was just another zealot, a fanatic, who believed that religion would save us from disaster. It didn’t and it couldn’t, as something totally different was needed. He says “we must continue to raise our voices and our lives if our nation persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam.” In DL, people raise their voice or try to be heard.  According to MLK “We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative method of protest possible.” How about listening to ourselves while we speak and engaging in EL instead of DL? In EL, our words are actions.

 

MLK says “Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.” I don’t protest DL, I avoid it, but MLK says “we must enter that struggle” and he says “something even more disturbing.” He demands  each one of us must carry, like him, the weight of the whole world on our shoulders. Our DL requires us to obey our conditioning history and do as we are told. We are told to care about others, we are not allowed to be individuals, who really care about ourselves.   

The profoundly problematic group-think is equally evident in other powerful people. John F. Kennedy is recorded to have said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” It is almost like a declaration of war, but this man, presumably, is in favor of peace. It is only in DL, that we demand and expect that others must “give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments.” MLK says “we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society”, but the individually-oriented society, that is America, is against his DL and the group-think he espouses.

MLK dishes up outdated biblical stories, to score political points about what according to him is “true compassion.” Unless we have faith, we cannot say “This is not just.” However, I don’t really need you to believe in EL. Your disbelief in EL and your sheepish faith in DL is not my problem. To me, DL is not just, as it “cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.” This has nothing to do with the nation, but with you. Your DL implies your “spiritual death”.

Who cares that MLK said “These are revolutionary times?” Many years have passed and look what has happened? We haven’t acknowledged the fact that our usual way of talking is DL and that nothing will change, unless we stop our DL, so that we can have EL.  It is utter nonsense to make it seem as if “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.” Quite to the contrary, we inevitably are dealing with the horrific consequences of our unaddressed DL.

MLK, sounds like a preacher, admonishing his people for their sins, but he is just another closet-politician, an anti-American, who is in favor of communism. Today, it is clearer than ever, the left believes that “only Marxism has a revolutionary spirit.” Our DL, has prevented our EL. This sad fact has nothing to do with having a so-called revolutionary spirit, but with listening to ourselves while we speak. If MLK would have heard his own dramatic, exaggerated voice, he would have realized, he wasn’t listening to himself, he would have spoken in a different tone of voice.

I love and praise the American culture, as it is the best fit for my individualism. Like many immigrants, I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to live here. MLK with his so-called “revolutionary spirit” wants people to believe in nonsense. He says “every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.” This is just pure demagoguery. It is astonishing to me so many black Americans are still so enthralled with this charlatan, whose insidious views are tearing American society apart today. I don’t consider MLK a man of peace, as he has no EL.