I read the following quote (Pope Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens) in my Catholic Social Teaching class. It was read in the context of discussing the various injustices that were seen in Latin America in the 1970's and 80's. I wonder if it doesn't also have implications for our own personal lives.
Revolutionary ideologies lead only to a change of masters; once installed in power, these new masters surround themselves with privileges, limit freedom and allow other forms of injustice to become established.
2 comments:
Sad, but very true.
Tho' in this country, it's taken almost 200 years for that all to come about, don't you think?
It all depends on how you want to understand "master," I suppose. In some ways, I think that this quote could as easily be understood as saying, "The devil you know is better than the one you don't know." There are some pretty clear episodes of the truth of this statement in US history.
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