if witness is patient. if perfect patience is not for satisfaction...
I listened to Martin Luther King's autobiography a couple times last summer when driving from LA to CT, and one thing that stays with me is his frustration with people asking for patience inside of social change; that he should ask for justice along a more comfortable timeline. He says the people who advocated patience were more difficult to bear than the people who were overtly defending racist laws and practices.
I think it is true that for patience to be virtuous it must be entirely itself, patience for patience. But I also wonder if virtue is enough (for what?) Is a virtuosity of witness irrelevant to the world? What is the advocated thing?
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