Slavery and Extortionby Adam PickettPhilosophers throughout time have explored the question into what the real meaning of slavery is, and what becomes understood over time can seem to take more time for some to understand, given the nature of habitual relationships. Slavery is indeed an internal struggle; it is easy to conjure up physical bondage, but there is another form: slavery of mind. Real slavery is created by systems, habits, and at the deep end, the impression of one’s own physical bondage. Misunderstood becomes the perception of servitude, but when faced with clear logic, slavery dissolves. Statists, or those that practice the doctrine for centralized government, push the envelope of ego, making slavery out as anything but the actual slavery; instead of federal government-supported slave ownership in pre-1865 South, it is described as ‘racism’. There can be no positive in slavery, even when free-market enterprise worked for the slaves, themselves. External struggles are only created by the same types of people who have the control, and thereby say it is an external struggle. This corruption, in all subtexts, is obscured, yet apparent when seen from the inside, out. The Emancipation Proclamation did not “free the slaves,” given that it applied
only to areas that the federal government did not yet control. And little do people know
that the term ‘confederacy’ actually means “an entity in agreement to
unite.” It became it’s own problematic strife against the older ‘united in
agreement’ entity with ‘fed’ in it’s name.
Dictators, old and new admire Abraham Lincoln’s bypassing of the public process that would’ve kept states’ rights, as Lincoln feared the probable civil war in letting the slow process work. It becomes clear that the political environment in the United States more or less prefers some slavery over any death, when faced with such decisions to choose between the two, even if it actually impends civil war. What becomes clearer is the superficial nature in these political environments, making it either one or the other, when reality could never call for either. Segregation is an even trickier subject, but clear as night and day when seen on live television; as old as television is, fear overcame the will to face the unconstitutionality of segregation until almost exactly a century after the legality of slavery was struck down. From the decisions of the Supreme Court, to domestic terrorist organizations based on ‘common-good agreement to protect whites from slaveblood’, a legal extortion becomes the arbitrary solution to an arbitrary problem, yet again. Whites were just as opposed to sharing water fountains with blacks as the Ku Klux Klan allowed whites to share with blacks; what resulted was the separate but equal doctrine, as certain cultures bonded with coercion. It wasn’t until the mid-1990’s that all states officially adhered to the abolishment of legal slavery and segregation; Mississippi came last, as breaking free from external oppression is major in the state’s history: the state’s region used to be part of Louisiana, just as Alabama was part of Mississippi. What is shown in the history of economic freedom is that breaking free from technical slavery goes far beyond law, and the legality of technical slavery was, and continues to be the reason for the existence of the confederacy. Breaking free from technical slavery is not something much literally discussed (even though the practice of first amendment rights makes it discussed on a figurative level). This breaking is what created the United States as we know it to be, dissenting from England under the terms of economic freedom. Real courage in the confusion of men led the struggle into war, as the lack of courage and clarity these days lead to the mere trading of one vice for another — one form of slavery for another. The buildup of cowardice and confusion ends up being the suffocation that leads to the violence we so fear. It shows that when facing real hell, we can only self-correct, and then move on. Otherwise... you, then I may live in a hell we create. |