I wrote this week’s column on the day (Monday) set aside to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday (this year’s celebration of his 90th). So it is, with humble pride, I commence with a quote from Dr. King:

Now the question that we face this evening is this: In the light of the fact that the oppressed people of the world are rising up against that oppression; in the light of the fact that the American Negro is rising up against his oppression, the question is this: How will the struggle for justice be waged?

-Martin Luther King, Jr., “Justice Without Violence,” April 3, 1957

The answer to King’s question, in global terms and in light of a new poll is, sadly: “With Slavish Stupidity.”

The poll is from the World Economic Forum, from the slave-masters straight out of Davos, Switzerland. That being said, a grain of…