Slaves Of Our Times

Most of us think of slavery as a fact of the past times, or ancient history. Or you may think that I will be talking about some tribes in Africa, or conflict in Darfur.
First of all this is not for everyone to read. If you are one of those who label everything unconventional and out of mainstream way of thinking as conspiracy theory, than you probably stop here and go find something interesting, like which car has fastest zero to sixty acceleration, or who divorced who in Hollywood last week.
This is a highly controversial subject. Very unusual, and like most of the rest of my posting, I believe you never heard of it, at least not the way I put it. Remember, not everything controversial is conspiracy theory, and yet not every conspiracy theory is out of sick mind and some has a lot of truth in it. We tend to dismiss things and ideas in whole. That’s when we rob ourselves from having a chance to discover the truth about a variety of subjects. Every idea, religion, political theory, etc while at whole maybe wrong, and not in our taste or even dangerous, but also can have a lot of truth or bits of truths hidden in it that could be hidden in it and beneficial to us.
That’s why I am quoting from religions, poems, theories, idealism, materialism, science, even dialectics and Marxism. Even though I believe in God and Marxism doesn’t, I still quote it when it makes sense.
My whole writing is about how to free yourselves from barriers that keeps your brain from thinking freely and also how to get close to your God. Not somebody else’s.
I am a Muslim but others may not call me that because I don’t believe in conventions and clichés and rules that are good and unbreakable for centuries. And I can care less what others think of me. For me Islam believes in God and that Mohammad and the rest of prophets were sent by him. And believe that God created us and Universe and Angels and aliens, but not in a pottery or from another human being’s left rib, but in constant evolution.
Now that you know where I come from, I better not go too far out of subject.
The main idea in this subject is slavery is not something in distant past time but a fact of our times too.
It always existed, except as times made us smarter, slave owners got smarter too. They never disappeared and today they are much powerful than ever. You do not have to agree with me but like I said the most ridiculous idea has some truth in it. So read my writing as such. You may find something useful in it. Although I believe what I write is the whole truth in best of my ability. When I am not sure about something, I will tell you there.
I am quoting from Marx and Marxism sometime, but don’t call me Marxist or communist. I am going to tell you right here that I believe Communism is the worst kind of slavery ever existed in our times. And Marxism is wrong because God doesn’t exist in it. I am going to write a whole chapter on this later. But when something makes sense and help us understand the truth, we can’t just dismiss it because we don’t like a specific idea in that theory. So read every quote as relevance and don’t say wow this make sense so the whole system of thinking of particular theory or religion or whatever must be true. That’s the most common mistake people make. So they either go the wrong way or miss something good and useful.
Believe it or not Capitalism doesn’t stay far behind communism in enslaving people. I will proof that later and before I get into communism. Because communism is already weakened, partially gone and is history, but capitalism is what we struggle with today.
But first let’s discuss some quotes.
Centuries ago, we had a great Farsi language poet not far less important than Rumi. His name was Saadi. Today mostly two of his books left. He lived from 1184 to 1283. Yes he was close to 100 years old when he died. He wrote Bostan which means orchard in 1257 and Gulistan which means Rose Garden in 1257. Mostly he was a Sufi. So here is a quote:
Once upon a time by chance or by destiny Alexander the great was passing by a road, He comes upon a wrecked town or a ghost town as we call it these days. There was a house with crumbled walls and fallen roof etc, he noticed somebody was sitting or living there. He got curious and pulled up and stopped his horse there to see what he was doing in the middle of nowhere. The man didn’t pay any attention, didn’t even turn his head. Alexander got inpatient and said “Oh ignorant men, do you know who stops by in front of you and you gave me no greetings or introduce yourself or nothing and don’t even acknowledge I exist. Do you know I am the ruler of the whole entire world and nothing could be done without my orders and an imaginable harm can come from me to people who make me mad?
The man very calmly without turning his face or looking at him replied: “I know very well who you are.
But tell me why I care that you are here or even exist? I have two slaves; one is desire to have more and more of material things. Second is desire to have more power everyday and to rule on others.(In Farsi each one of those desires have one word not two, so it is impossible to translate it with whole beauty in the poem). I enslaved both of those desires. But both of them rule over you. So how can you think of yourself as equal to me and expect I even greet you while you are not even my slave, you are my slave’s slave. From the bluntness of man’s answer, and that he was not afraid of him at all, and deep meaning of what he was saying, Alexander the great realized that the man was a free soul that didn’t care about anything, maybe just his God and his free soul. So he left him alone and continued to his journey”.
The moral of the story is until you want more and more things and more and power, you cannot be free.
Second quote from Marxism sources, I think it was Lenin. Even though he enslaved nations the worse kind but it is a good quote: “A nation that enslaves other nations, cannot be a free nation itself”.
The next one is: I always take Karl Marx as a philosopher, not for the crimes that acted under his name decades after he died. Read his theory of Alienation. He explains how objects and material things rule over us in Capitalism. It is ironic, isn’t it? How Marx who is the king of materialism talking about material things enslaving us but never the less, it makes a lot of sense and in my opinion it’s totally true and explain a lot of things that wrong in today’s capitalism. In short, in capitalism objects alienate us from ourselves. To over simplify Marx alienation theory about how capitalism enslave people: Capitalism has a virus that makes people want more and more of material things and in that process buy people and buries them deeper and deeper. A middle class citizen with limited income wants to buy a Mercedes for his wife because his rich cousin bought one for his wife. Of course he is enslaved to the bank, who lends him the money, and the money which he could spend on food for his kids and healthcare and primary needs is gone and his hard work goes to bank instead of his primary needs. You can make thousand more examples like that. That is the way Capitalism work. Like I said that was my version and very simplified one. Want to know more, go read the actual theory and extract your take from it. (To be continued)