Slavery never ended, only the language changed

[Darkover]

For most of human history the name of the game has been the wealthy rule over the poor. Human beings are a resource, they can be and are utilized like tools. The more resources available the easier your life becomes, pleasure is more accessible.

If the wealthy don't treat the conscious resources well enough, those resources rebel. If they rebel, the way of an easier life is gone. The trick they have learned is, keep the herd from rebelling. Bread and circuses to keep them entertained and laws to fear them into compliance.

The pen is mightier than the sword. Words are the "new" sword. If you can control a mind through the use of symbols, their bodies will walk to your tune. They become your resource. There is no need to physically harm someone nowadays, the fear of your comfort and safety being removed is enough to stop your shenanigans.

The only things truly changing are the languages used and the tools that enforce the language. Money is the new whip. The word slave changed to employee. The cage is more comfortable now, but nonetheless 1% of the population rules over 99%.

They show you slaves in metal chains so you can't perceive your mental ones.
The prison has been made invisible, now everyone thinks they are free.
the very fact your not allowed to choose to leave makes us slaves

 

[KillingPain267]

True!

In hunter gatherer times, even though humans shared all food and tools, they were still slaves to nature, time and decay and entropy. Then when civilization and sedentary farming started, humans started enslaving each other for labor power. Then under feudalism, kings enslaved subjects in exchange for military "protection" from invading kings. Then came capitalism and the 90% working class are enslaved not to one master but to the whole exploiter class as a whole (the capitalist owning class). Once (or if) socialist revolutions begin more and more, the 90% will be slaves to the state central planners and socialist party chairmen who will never give up power. Then eventually the earth will get more and more destroyed in ressource depletion, population growth, climate change and we will be even more enslaved to entropy. Then the sun gets larger and larger and burns us all up. The end.

 

[DeIetedUser4739]

Everything is true but I still wouldn't want to live if I was the 1% ruling class.

 

[cosmic-freedom]

"Social norms" were the psychological tactics used to uphold this slavery.There was no room for critical thinking.The concept of marriage and children kept the masses busy while they starved and were ridden with disease.They were too caught up trying to survive to ever think.Women were forced to bear children and get married.Religion was the law of the old world.It was a tool to control the masses and keep them busy with trying to uphold traditional norms.Why do think those in power are afraid of LGBTQ people and women's rights?

If people did what they want regardless of what others thought of them, then they can no longer exert any control.