Many talk confidently about slavery and reparations and so on and so on. How few have really dug into the root of it, with the authenticity of Jesus?
- The miss the church keeps on making - The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII
- There is slavery, and there is slavery - Slavery and Slavery
It's such a strong signal. Indicating that by implication, all people, everywhere have always preferred to be slaves, than to be free. And that the political battle over slavery proper is really all about who can be owned by the best master. The signal is very strong.
Notice that socialism for example, only criticises their competitors 'master', never its own. And likewsie for everyone who is not a planet saver. Isn't this the 'uniparty' down to a T?
The signal is that we have already accepted our slavery willingly and only compete to be the group of slaves who gets marginally more food and shelter for it? This cause and effect goes from the lowest to the highest without exception. A corporate midwit manager on $200k has little left after paying 1) their mortgage for renting the land directly and 2) their taxes for renting the land indirectly. The state is just a bigger land owner then the financial system.
The same is an identical case for a hospitality worker on minimum wage. The difference being that the one has more luxury than the other. Both are still just as much slaves and its very much evident in their behaviours. Both being identical politically yet are competing fiercely for their earth bound master.
As always, it's much more than this though - did we not allow Him to be nailed to a tree for coming to tell us all about this, instead of the rapist and murderer? Its a strong signal.
And I quote:
"Robinson Crusoe, as we all know, took Friday as his slave. Suppose, however, that instead of taking Friday as his slave, Robinson Crusoe had welcomed him as a man and a brother; had read him a Declaration of Independence, an Emancipation Proclamation and a Fifteenth Amendment, and informed him that he was a free and independent citizen, entitled to vote and hold office; but had at the same time also informed him that that particular island was his (Robinson Crusoe's) private and exclusive property. What would have been the difference? Since Friday could not fly up into the air nor swim off through the sea, since if he lived at all he must live on the island, he would have been in one case as much a slave as in the other. Crusoe's ownership of the island would be equivalent to his ownership of Friday.
Chattel slavery is, in fact, merely the rude and primitive mode of property in man. It only grows up where population is sparse; it never, save by virtue of special circumstances, continues where the pressure of population gives land a high value, for in that case the ownership of land gives all the power that comes from the ownership of men, in more convenient form.
English ships carried negro slaves to America, and not to England or Ireland, because in America land was cheap and labor was valuable, while in western Europe land was valuable and labor was cheap. As soon as the possibility of expansion over new land ceased, chattel slavery would have died out in our Southern States. As it is, Southern planters do not regret the abolition of slavery. They get out of the freedmen as tenants as much as they got out of them as slaves."
Slavery and Slavery - https://cooperative-individualism.org/george-henry_social-problems-1883-15.pdf
So the action we must take on reparations is clear, and can be resolved by all comers immediately. But do we want it? It seems to me we would prefer to remain slaves, than to take on the obligations we'll all have if we chose freedom. For my master is who I prefer to work for - he owns the land and its a better alternative for me to throw my obligations onto him and let him feed me.
Comments
Post a Comment