ZOMFG SLAVEZ

This is a message not to address any individuals, but the whole "movement" that I see revolving around the slavery conspiracy that's going on in our country today.


I take issue with the language used to describe the heirarchical business setup we have in our society. "Slavery," a term used to describe some of the worst atrocities committed by man in history, is now being used to describe a skewed commercial and industrial labor system. Yes, as of now, it favors greedy and selfish people on top who obtained and maintain their power/money by screwing other people over. But...


You are NOT a fucking SLAVE.


Slaves, by definition, don't have rights. They have no freedoms. They don't get choices. They were owned like property. They were owned, like your bike, or like a pet dog. But they were treated a hell of a lot worse than your bike, or your pet dog, or yourself by the people who you claim to "own" you. Slaves were beaten. Repeatedly. For their entire lives. Then, often killed. It was legal - and encouraged by society - to do so.


If you want to talk about bonded labor, or say you have debt bondage and basically have no way of earning enough money to pay off your debtors, then DESCRIBE it like that. "Slave" already has a definition with an extraordinary history, and it needs to remain as such.


Calling us slaves does a couple major things. Number one: It changes the meaning of the word, watering down the situations that REAL slaves had to live through, and in turn is an extreme disrespect to their memory and disruptive to the accuracy of our history. If we start referring to our situations as "enslavement" and it gets documented in the history books that way, there'll be some kids reading about it down the road that are gonna be wondering what the hell WE were complaining about. Try going back to the American South before 1830 and have a chat with a few of the guys there. You'll see what a fucking slave is.


Number two: You're becoming guilty of exactly the same goddamned thing the idiots in the corporate media are guilty of. You're blowing the circumstances way out of proportion by labeling them with something far more extreme than what it actually is. How many times a day do you hear Glenn Beck and Fox & Friends compare our country's situation to that of Nazi Germany or Stalin's regime? It's extremely disturbing to me; HOW DARE people compare our current state of affairs to the horrific things that took place in our history.


Are we someone's bitch sometimes? Sure. Thing is, nobody's going to beat or kill you if you don't do the specific work some ass hat manager demanded you do. Not only that, but if you're someone's bitch, and I'm someone's bitch, where's it stop? EVERYONE is someone else's bitch. Who isn't, at least at SOME point in their life? And being someone's bitch doesn't fucking matter if you can walk away - a freedom that we happen to have, by the way. Go learn how to do something well and offer your services to the public. Be your own boss if you hate working for other people so much.


We have choices. We can find different jobs, different employers. If we don't like someone, we can move on and try to find other work with other people. Hell, we can leave the country if we want to - you got a problem with the rules here, then get the hell out and quit whining to the people who are perfectly content with their lives. If it sucks so bad, then go where the grass is oh-so-much greener, then tell me how you feel.


On a lighter note, I think there's an end in sight with the birth of global communication.


http://www.facebook.com/TheOther98?v=info


Is our system rigged right now to cater to the few people on top? Yeah, but we're in the works of doing something about it. As more of the world gains access to computer technology and an internet connection, our system naturally becomes more and more transparent. As we progress, there are fewer and fewer places for the greedy top shots to hide; the potential for collaborative groups with utilitarian objectives will quickly overpower greedy and selfish individuals, because let's face it - who are those ass holes really going to turn to when judgment day comes for them? If all their dark deeds can be laid out for the world to see (Wikileaks, for instance), eventually they will fall. Egypt, anyone?


We're within generations: Even the youth of the world NOW is learning the power of communicating with people across the world to pool together the best ideas, along with ways to put them into practice. Collaboration - working together to reduce world suck. Empathy and compassion will conquer.