Copyrighted material from the book - Thoughts of liberated mind
6. Origins of slavery
Let us begin with one individual. Suppose he is the only one in the world. He is free. He has full freedom to take any decision. There is no one to be harmed by his actions. His freedom is not restricted. There is no right or wrong. But he is of good nature.A second individual comes. Both have to take into account the fact that their actions have consequences now. Their freedom is restricted in a sense that their actions should not harm the other. There is a concept of right and wrong now. The perception of this right and wrong is not artificial. It is as per the natural law and present in both of their consciousness. Each one is fully aware that his words and actions could harm the other and hence they respect each other’s freedom of choice and liberty. Any conflict of interest is resolved with the participation and consent of both. There is no violence.
Now evil enters into the second person. Second individual starts to consider himself as superior (based on any of his traits - appearance, strength, knowledge, intelligence or health) to the first individual. The first person remains good and unaffected by evil so he doesn’t notice the changed behaviour of the second person. The second person hypnotizes himself that he is indeed superior to the first person. Evil takes hold of his mind and very soon, his words and actions. Second person thinks that he must be higher than the first person. He sees the opportunity of taking command over the first and enforce his obedience. He also sees the usefulness of the first being a tool to do work for him so that he may not even have to work for survival. He tries to convince the first that he should let him take decisions as he is better at it. He starts to take decisions unilaterally and later convinces the first through sophistry and lies. He starts lying regularly and manipulates the first to get what he wants from the first. The first person being good and being fed lies do not suspect and agree to the decisions of the second. Meanwhile the second person demands and accumulates resources for himself for the service of decision making and thinking for both of them. He convinces the other that this role is the most important thing and that he will be able to do it even better if he doesn’t have to work for survival. He thus starts collecting a part of products that are the result of the labour of the first. He further devises ways and structures to impose his authority over the first. He begins to feel that he need not even convince the first as he is too inferior and ‘low born’. He starts to coerce the first to submit to his will. He makes rules that benefits himself and demands obedience from the first. He constantly violates first's freedom, liberty and free will. He labels his rule as the truth. He floats ideas like 'survival of the fittest', 'merit' etc. He justifies his action stating that fittest or meritorious person must rule and look after the weak. The definition of 'fittest', 'merit' etc. are defined by him by the way. He brainwashes and programs the first that he is weak and unintelligent and hence he better let him govern his life. He constantly make rules that gradually takes all the freedom of choice of the first person. He takes all the decisions for the first.
Now enters third individual. He is physically
strong but not intelligent. He is corruptible however. He observes that the
first person is miserable. He doesn’t want to be miserable too. He negotiates
with the second. The second person offers him favours and resources in exchange
of third person acting as a muscle man to curb revolt, if any, from the first
person. Third person doesn’t have to work also. He starts enjoying the power he
has over the first. He demands more resources and power from the second and
sometimes have conflicts with him. However, soon the second convinces the third
that if they stay together then they would rule over the first and
enjoy forever.
More people are added to the group. They are either
of first, second or third kind. Ninety nine percent of them follow what their
kind do in the group. So we have people of the second kind ruling over the
people of first kind with the help of the people of third kind. People of the
second and third kind live off of the labour of the first kind. They keep all
the resources under their ownership or control. They occasionally give some
resources as limited ownership in exchange of perpetual taxes that the receiver
has to pay for life. This they say is for safety, maintenance of the system and
expenses for the administration of the system. They term it their moral duty to
perform these administrative functions to continue running the system. In turn
they state that they are doing a noble thing and providing safety and amenities
to the people of the first kind (labourers). Labour class begins to believe
that this is a minor sacrifice and necessary thing to survive. As long as there
is no major threat to their existence labour class does not revolt.
Second and third kind grow greedy. They want to ensure that supremacy of
their kind and their posterity to last for ever. They want all the ownership of
all the resources for their kind. They keep the labour class (people of the first
kind) illiterate and poor. They ensure that labourers never get required
education to understand their oppressive rules, laws and system. They obscure
the rules and laws. They spread their propaganda through all mediums of
communications – word-of-mouth, folklore, stories, books, television, films
etc. They lie and glorify about their divine origins, their noble birth and
make stories about them being the descendants of the Gods themselves. They thus
term their right to make laws as divine. They become masters and the first kind
- labourers. As the people of second and third kind are dispensed with labour
they have the liberty to think and invest time in coming up with new ideas.
Each new idea and invention they come up is used to gain more power and resources
for their kind. However, they portray it like it is for common good. As spin
off of these ideas labourers do get paltry benefit. They are so distressed that
they believe that their masters are kind, noble and benevolent. They see all
these spin offs of these ideas as acts of kindness from their masters. They
start respecting and obeying their masters. It is slowly and deeply ingrained
in theirs and their children's mind. They become true slaves.
As the number of
people grow, the people of the second and third kind, ensure that only a few
get into their ranks. They place their people at all the centres of
authorities. They corrupt people with greed and propaganda. They zealously
protect their kind and do not mix with people of the first kind. They ensure
that their kind marries within their kind. Seeing the increasing number of
labour class compared to their kind, they feel that direct coercion through the
people of the third kind is not possible. They then come up with ideas like
‘Rule of law’. It’s a subterfuge to divert the minds of the labour class as to
who the real oppressor is. And to let them feel that no one is in command, but
only ‘law’ is! And they ensure that only their people get to frame,
deliberate and make these laws. After all, these laws are so complex and full
of sophistry that an average person of labour class would not understand them.
Anyways, they have kept the labour class illiterate and poor. So they know that
there would hardly be any resistance. All they need to do is tell more lies,
obscure the true intention of these laws and brain wash labour class so that
they think that these laws are for justice. They start making structures of law
to obfuscate their propaganda to extend total control of the labour class. Though
benevolent these laws may appear to labour class but they forget that its
creator, executer and adjudicator are all from master class. And this would end
up in application of these laws onto labour class only while the master class
would escape its applicability on one pretext or the other citing inherent
ambiguity (introduced for their benefit since inception) or a manufactured one.
Adjudicator (of master kind) of such law would naturally be inclined to favour
their kind. If everything fails, they will delay the whole process or create
diversions of serious kind and labour class would forget about it anyways with
time.
As the common
consciousness of labour class rises, they start asking for their rights and
other privileges. Master class then comes up with other ideas of governance
that promises to give these rights. Master class feel that an illusion of
choice and freedom must be given to the labour class to prevent any revolt.
This is because the labour class has increased considerably and the master
class - only a fraction. They then float ideas like capitalism, socialism,
communism, republic, democracy, welfare state etc. Each one is a form of
authority that caters to the diverse ideologies labour class may think of. They
put all these propaganda in the education system. Hence, enough ideologies and
ideas of a state or a nation are floated that people can relate to. This also
successfully creates divisions amongst people. Instead of fighting the
authority that brings misery to them they fight amongst themselves about whose
ideology must be implemented! Hence the master class achieve their purpose of
keeping their authority, preventing revolt and keep the labour class working
for their system wilfully. They further brainwash people with ideas like
‘patriotism’, ‘duty towards nation’, ‘constitution is supreme’, ‘respect for
constitutional institutions’ etc. All these are artificial constructs to
demand, ensure and coerce people into obedience. Violence and wars for
defending these ideas become acceptable and many consider it to be their moral
duty! It also creates an illusion in the minds of the people that they are
serving or obeying no one but only law. They feel and believe that they are
free. The deception and programming is complete.
Master class creates a system
(social, economic, political, legal, financial etc.) whose main purpose is to
benefit their kind in most convoluted ways. They tax people in invisible ways.
These systems are so complex and obscure that common person of the labour class
would not understand. Besides, the education system teaches people what the
master class wants them to know. They use education system to indoctrinate
children and programme masses to obey the structures of authority. They own all
the media who spew their propaganda 24*7. They own all the corporations and so
they decide what news labour class will hear, what food they will eat, what
clothes they will wear, what music they will listen to etc. Through television
and films they condition people to behave in a particular way which is desired
for their system. They choose celebrities who are popular and rich with their
money to spread their propaganda. These means of entertainments are also used
to distract people from the actual problems people are having. Master class
wants continued obedience of the people. However, they discovered that a slave
is most productive when he has an illusion of choice and freedom. Also when he
is entertained. Besides, after exploiting and extorting labour class by means of
hard labour and taxes, master class ensure that they provide several forms of
entertainments to distract people from their miserable lives. So entertainment
serves as both a tool for programming and distraction. Certain behaviours are
rewarded by master class to further encourage people to behave in ways that is
conducive to their system. They reward cunningness, cut-throat attitude, greed,
manipulative nature, liars, psychopaths, moral depravity etc. Why? Because they
want people to engage in mindless rat race with narcissism and ‘me-me’
attitude. It programmes people to think wickedly, be opportunistic and have no
love for fellow human being. Thus such behaviour ensures that there can seldom
be any unity and agreement between people. All will look after their greed and
can betray anyone for their gains. This helps the system as system with
enormous amount of money can corrupt anyone who is greedy or ask him to betray
any group that has risen against the system. All these behaviours are glorified
in books, stories, films etc. to condition labour class to become corrupt and
wicked. A materialistic life is glorified with mindless and unnecessary things
which have no real worth. However, master class succeeds because they know all
the techniques of programming. People of labour class become busy and
competitive in achieving goals and gathering things. They find misery when they
fail or are happy when they get what they want. Either case they become too sad
or too happy to look for truth. They will not even listen when it is shown to
them!
Such is the indoctrination and
programming of slavery in the minds of the labour class that they would not
welcome any idea of questioning the authority of their masters. So much so that
they will not let even one among them to speak who tries to expose the truth.
They will outcast and boycott him. Obeying the authority is what they have done
all their life and their ancestors before. How can there be anything wrong with
the system? After all, what is harm in obeying and sacrificing some of their
earnings to their masters in exchange of safety and amenities that are provided
to them in return? They deeply believe that their masters are noble men who
make laws, executes them and deliver justice based on those laws. Even though
they were not part of the law making process! They are even fine with the
visible fact that they are constantly poor despite working to their bones but
their masters are always rich doing no hard labour.
Some among the labour class get some
education and rise a bit higher in the hierarchy. They are given just enough
opportunity by the master class to make them feel good with a sense of
achievement. But as they move up, they begin to understand the game. They
understand the ruthlessness, fake benevolent mask and politics of master class.
At this point, they are either co-opted by the master class by deluding them to
think that with their worth they must act and behave like one of the master
class or are quickly shown their status and kicked out of the hierarchy on one
pretext or the other. One who are co-opted are the ones who mimics the
behaviour of master class and themselves become as evil and cut-throat as the
master class. They are kept in the hierarchy as long as they do not interfere in
the agenda of the master class. They are rewarded for this occasionally to
keep them in the delusion that they belong to the elite class. But when they
start to get powerful and begin to interfere they are kicked out immediately
from their high posts through constant harassment, ridicule and conspiracy.
Labour class cannot thus get their freedom, rights
and liberty back as long as the higher levels of the system are populated by
the master class. Most of the labour class are good and not evil. They are
satisfied with modest life. They are peaceful and want to live in peace. Hence
they cannot match the ruthlessness and depravity of master class. Moreover, all
the centres of power - legislatures, executive and judiciary are populated by
master class at the highest decision making levels. So master class is the
maker of the law, judge, jury and the executioner.
So it is imperative that any act that takes away freedom and liberty of an individual must be resisted on the very first instance of its occurrence with full force. Inaction in this regard will result into slavery just like the world we live in. Evil starts when freedom is taken away.
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