The Story of Your Enslavement
Tip: Highlight text to annotate itX
This is the story of your enslavement...
...how it came to be
and how you can finally... be free
Like all animals, human beings want to
dominate and exploit the resources
around them.
At first we mostly hunted and fished
and ate off the land...
but then something magical - and terrible -
happened to our minds.
We became - alone among the animals -
afraid of Death...
and of future loss.
And this was the start of a great
tragedy - and an even greater possibility...
You see, when we become
afraid of death...
...of injury and imprisonment...
...we become Ccntrollable...
and so... valuable...
...in a way that no other resource
could ever be.
The greatest resource for any
human being to control
is not natural resources or
tools or animals or land
but
other
Human
Beings.
You can frighten an animal,
because animals are afraid of pain...
in the moment.
But you cannot frighten
an animal with a loss of liberty...
...with torture
or imprisonment in the future...
...because animals have
very little sense of 'tomorrow'.
You cannot threaten a cow with
torture, or a sheep with death.
You cannot swing a sword at a tree
and scream at it to produce more fruit...
...or hold a burning torch to a field
and demand more wheat.
You cannot get more eggs
by threatening a hen...
...but you can get a man to
give you his eggs by threatening him.
This 'Human Farming' has been
the most profitable...
...and destructive occupation
throughout history....
and it is now reaching its
destructive cimax.
Human society cannot be rationally
understood until it is seen for what it is...
...a series of Farms...
...where Human Farmers...
...own HUMAN Livestock.
Some people get confused because
governments provide healthcare..
...and water
...and education
...and roads
...and thus imagine that there is some
'benevolence' at work.
Nothing could be further from
...the reality.
Farmers provide 'Healthcare' and
...'Irrigation'...
...and training
to their 'Livestock'.
Some people get confused because we
are allowed certain liberties
..and thus imagine...
...that our Governments 'protect' our freedoms.
But farmers plant their crops a certain
distance apart to increase their yields...
...and will allow certain animals larger
'Stalls' or 'Fields'
if it means they will produce more meat...
...and milk.
In your country...
...your 'Tax Farm'...
...your farmer grants you certain freedoms
- not because he cares about your liberties...
...but because he wants to increase his profits.
Are you beginning to see the nature of
the cage you were born into?
There have been 4 major phases of
Human Farming...
The first phase, in ancient Egypt,
was direct and brutal human compulsion.
Human bodies were controlled but the
creative productivity
of the human mind
remained beyond the reach of the whip,
and the brand, and the shackles.
Slaves remained woefully underproductive
and required enormous resources to control.
The second phase was the 'Roman model'
wherein slaves were granted some capacity
for freedom, ingenuity and creativity
- which raised their productivity.
This increased the wealth of Rome - and thus
the tax income of the Roman Govenment
and with this additional wealth,
Rome became - an Empire,
destroying the economic freedoms
that fed its power...
...and collapsed.
I'm sure that this does not seem
entirely unfamiliar...
After the collapse of Rome, the feudal model
introduced the concept of 'livestock ownership'
and taxation.
Instead of being directly owned, peasants
farmed land that they could retain
as long as they paid off the
local Warlords.
This model eventually broke down due
to the continual subdivision of
productive land
and was destroyed
during the Enclosure Movement,
when land was consolidated
and hundreds of thousands of peasants
were kicked off their ancestral lands
because new farming techniques made
larger farms more productive
with fewer people.
The increased productivity of the Later
Middle Ages created the excess food
required for the expansion of towns and
cities.
which in turn gave rise to the modern
Democratic Model
of Human Ownership.
As displaced peasants flooded into the
cities, a huge stock of
cheap human capital became available
to the rising industrialists..
and the ruling class of Human Farmers
quickly realised
that they could make more money
by letting their 'Livestock'
choose their own occupations.
Under the Democratic Model,
direct slave ownership has been replaced
by the 'Mafia' Model.
The Mafia rarely owns businesses directly
- but rather, send thugs around once a month
to steal from the business owners.
You are now allowed to choose
your own occupation
- which raises your productivity -
and thus, the taxes you can pay
to your masters.
"Value this time in your life, kids"
" 'cause this is the time in your life when
you still have your choices"
"and it goes by SO fast!"
"When you're a teenager, you think you can
do anything... and you do!"
"...your 20's are a blur"
"...30's, you raise your family,
you make a little money..."
"...and you think to yourself...
- what happened to my 20's?"
"...40's you grow a lil' pot belly,
you grow another chin!"
"...the music starts to get too loud..."
"...one of your old girlfriends from highschool
becomes a grandmother..."
"...50's you'll have a minor surgery
- you'll call it a 'procedure'"
" - but it's a surgery..."
"...60's you'll have a major surgery, the
music is STILL loud but it doesn't matter"
"because you can't hear it anyway!"
"...70's You and the wife retire to
Fort Lauderdale..."
"you start eating dinner at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon.."
"you have lunch around 10,
breakfast the night before!"
" - then spend most of your time wandering
around malls"
"..looking for the ultimate soft yogurt muttering
"How come the kids don't call?
-How come the kids don't call"?"
"In your 80's you'll have a major stroke,
and you end up babbling to some
Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand,"
"but who you call 'Mama'.."
"Any questions?.."
Your few freedoms are preserved
because they are profitable to your owners.
The great challenge of the Democratic
Model
is that increases in wealth and freedom
threaten the 'Farmers'!
The ruling classes initially profit from
a relatively 'free' market in capital
- and labour,
but as their livestock become more
used to their freedoms - and growing wealth
they begin to question why they need
'Rulers' at all...
Ah well...
Nobody ever said that Human Farming was easy!
Keeping the Tax Livestock securely
in the compunds of the Ruling Classes...
...is a three phase process.
The first is to indoctrinate the young
through government "Education".
As the wealth of democratic countries
grew, governments schools were
universlly inflicted
in order to control the thoughts - and souls
of the Livestock.
The second phase is to turn citizens
against each other
through the creation of
'Dependent Livestock'.
It is very difficult to rule human beings
directly through force...
...and where it can be achieved,
it remains cripplingly underproductive
- as can be seen in North Korea.
Human Beings do not breed well or
produce efficiently in direct captivity.
Ah, but if Human Beings believe
that they are 'free',
then they will produce much more
for their 'Farmers'.
The best way to maintain this 'illusion'
of freedom is to put some of the Livestock...
...on the payroll of the Farmer.
Those 'Cows' that become dependent
on the existing hierarchy
will then attack any other 'Cows' that point
out the violence, hypocrisy and immorality
of Human ownership.
"Officers positioned 'Grant' face first on the
floor with one officer near his head..."
" - a second near his back and a third
officer standing nearby."
"There appeared to be a brief struggle,
then a 2 year veteran Bart officer stands, "
"...draws his weapon"
"and fires."
[observing crowd shrieks]
Freedom is Slavery..
...and Slavery is Freedom.
If you can get the 'Cows' to attack
each other,
whenever anybody brings up the reality
of their situation,
then you don't have to spend nearly
as much controlling them directly.
Those 'Cows' who become dependent
upon the stolen largess of the 'Farmer'
will violently oppose any quesioning of
the vitrue of human ownership.
...And the intellectual and artistic classes
- always and forever dependent upon
the 'Farmers', will say to anyone who
demands freedom from ownership
"You will harm your fellow Cows".
The 'Livestock' are thus kept enclosed
by shifting the moral responsibillity
for the destructiveness of the violent system
to those who demand
real freedom.
The third phase is to invent continual
external threats so that the frightened
Livestock cling to the protection
of the Farmers.
This system of Human Farming
is now nearing its end.
The terrible tragedies of modern
Western economic systems
has occured, not in spite of,
but because of past economic freedoms.
The massive increases in western wealth
throughout the 19th Century
resulted from economic freedoms
...and it was this very increase in wealth
that fed the size and power of the State.
Whenever the Livestock become
exponentially more productive
you get a corresponding increase in
in the number of 'Farmers'
...and their dependants.
The growth of the state is always proportional
to the preceeding economic freedoms.
Economic freedoms create wealth...
...and the wealth attracts more thieves
and political 'parasites'
whose greed then destroys
the economic freedoms.
In other words, freedom metastasizes
the cancer of the State.
The Government that starts off the smallest
will always end up the largest.
This is why there can be no viable
and sustainable alternative
to a truly free and peaceful society.
A society without political rulers
- without human ownership
- without the violence of taxation
and statism.
To be truly free, is both very easy
- and very hard.
We avoid the horror of our enslavement
because it is so painful
to see it directly.
We dance around the endless violence
of our dying system
because we fear the attacks
of our fellow Livestock
But we can only be kept in the cages
we refuse to see.
Wake up.
To see the farm
is to leave it.
