Aufheben der Martin Luther King | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 53

In its relentless bid to consume and destroy the best of our civilization, the Dialectical Left has begun a rather relentless campaign against the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., trying to make out that he was a radical in the Woke mold and that reducing his work to his "I Have a Dream" speech is another aspect of "white supremacy." King, like everyone, was a complex person with a variety of ideas and views, many of which were shaped by the struggles and frustrations of his time, but nevertheless, it is precisely the liberal universalism and individualism captured in his famous exhortation that he had a dream that his children would be judged based on the contents of their characters that defines his legacy. It is aspirational rather than frustrating. It is unifying rather than dividing. And that's why it worked to change a nation and a world where the rest didn't and wouldn't. King's dream of judging human beings as individuals against a universal human standard appeals to something we are rapidly losing and need to reassert: a common sensibility. In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I spend a few minutes talking about the aufheben of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by the voracious culture-eaters on the Dialectical Left and make an appeal that we understand our moment and turn ourselves back toward a common sensibility, which he called us to aspire to in what may have been his finest moment.

-James Lindsay

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