In this week’s “Ask the Ass” Mondays the topic of slavery came up, along with should there be reparation of any kind. I will not tackle those questions again, but want to bring a new outlook on “slavery.” Today, the shackles of slavery have been broken. Yesterday’s shackles have been replaced with a much more efficient system. This system is not made of iron and steel nor is it based on the color of your skin… its knowledge. This knowledge is what separates the haves and have not’s.
Rockefeller along with several other wealthy business people funded a project which later became Harvard. The study was how to best run a society? The smartest of people came from around the world to participate.
They determined that slavery was not economically efficient way to sustain a nation. They suggested an open aired jail based on knowledge. The problem with out-right slavery is that slaves have nothing to lose so they will run away or have destructive behavior. All of which will bring down a nation, and any 3rd world country is evidence of this.
Give people enough that they will not run away or be destructive. Even though we have our share of problems (or opportunities in work clothes); I have yet to see an American citizen make a raft to sail away or jump the fence to Mexico. This is why slavery was replaced with the middle class, which makes up a large percent of America. These same business men then funded colleges and universities to educate their working force; since, they where the ones paying for this they also had an influence of the curriculum. From the time of birth you are taught to do what you are told, the education system was established with this in mind. As a child your parents tell you what to do; as a teenager your teacher tells you what to do; college your professor tells you what to do; and graduate from college and you boss tells you what to do.
The welfare system was created to keep the poor from being anymore destructive than they already are. America’s “poor,” pale in comparison to the poor of the 3rd world countries.
An educated slaves work harder and longer. Because we a society that likes to keep up with the Jones, they got rid of physical shackles and gave everyone credit. So you go to work… they give you a pay check… you then go spend more than that in another one of their companies or one of their friends’ company. The American dream is available to everyone at 15% interest.
The only thing left was selling the “public” on this new system. They then funded local and national politicians along with special interest groups to promote getting rid of slavery. I was fairly long process that took more than one president’s term, but its how social change takes place.
Out with slavery, in with the middle class. This might seem unfair, but the top 5% know you will not do anything about it. Not because you don’t want to, but because you have been programmed to be workers not to think. The top 5% control more than 80% of the money because they know the rules of the game and they play to win.
Henry ford said it best, “Thinking is the hardest task and that’s why so few engage in it.”
If there is going to be a revolution, this time it will have to start with the way we think.
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haahahahah thank you for answer my question ;) funny:)
, the US of A has done it all
slavery
Ku Klux Klan
fucking up the environment with GHG
torturing prisoners,
Now USA lectures about Human Rights to China and India
yeah when you write the history books you can tell the story how you want too.
Example: In the history books early settler prominent families were known as "tea bagers" for trading tea... but it was really opinum.
This is why slavery was replaced with the middle class, which makes up a large percent of America.
A percent that everyone agrees is quickly shrinking. To follow your logic, this would imply that as the middle class shrinks, the potential for pseudo-slavery, or rather, the return of slavery in a new form, increases.
Yes actually that is my point that slavery was replace with the middle or working class. Middle class is $50k - 150K as a single and up to $200k as a couple. As the economy grows yes the gap between the haves and the have nots will increase.
Drew, you may be an a-hole, but you've got a mind! This was the most intelligent well expressed opinion on the subject I've ever read. I'm going to make it a point to get by more often and drink from this fountain.
Referencing your ask column-I could care less about your gender, race, age or political convictions. You think and you make me think.
sojourner g - more people should be like and not filter someone's comments through the labels that one has. So I created the character for the rest of the mortals that reader the blog.
yea, i agree w/ most others - this was a well written peice, A! What do u think of think tanks such as the Brookings Institute? As I've told u earlier - despite yr self-title the fact that u address "uncomfortable" topics keeps me coming back...and crusading, as u call it. lol!
I like think tanks... I look forward to funding one some day.
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