Wage earners are Economic Slaves, the lowest of which is the common laborer.
We would not be far wrong to say that civilization is commercialism, and the latter is composed chiefly of capitalists and their hirelings. The hirelings are the Economic Slaves who are dependent on others for a living. They have no time to acquire knowledge, and are not noted for their wisdom. The position they fill is proof of their mental inferiority, and they are in the great majority in civilization.
This vast majority constitutes the servants of Commercialism. They spend their days in weakening work and degrading toil. They have little opportunity for physical, mental and spiritual development. They must look for light to those who live on the fruits of their labor. If they found the true light it would soon end their days of economic slavery. So their mind, their education and their religion must be controlled in order to keep them in darkness.
The word ‘Education’ is a misnomer. The schools do not educate; they domesticate. People are trained like dogs and horses. They are trained to do the things and think the thoughts that those in authority want them to do and think. They are trained to accept without prejudice and to obey without question the dictates of authority.
- Man’s Higher Consciousness by Hilton Hotema
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Wow, Pittershawn
Do you really believe it’s as simple as that?
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pittershawn Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@Karen O’Bannon, The entire thing is Mr. Hotema. None of the words in this piece are my thoughts. It is a direct quote in its entirety, all paragraphs. However, I do agree with Mr. Hotema.
I think there is a paradox that is life. It actually is as simple as that, while simultaneously being far more complex than that. These things live together, I believe, sharing in the same time and space.
What I think many will find difficult is not the potential truth of the statement, but that if it is true, that means they are slaves to this culture. And people wish to see themselves as free where they are not. To live the illusion of freedom makes life bearable. To believe that education is more than merely domestication allows us to sleep at night.
I talk to so many people, and I typically hear nothing but the parroting of what they’ve been taught in this system. So few participate in an original thought. Everything is just a repeat of the six o’clock news, or the latest hit movie, or the newest reality show. Their lives are the romances they read about. So few actually engage in creating a new idea not spoon fed to them by this culture. It is all regurgitation for the most part from what I’ve observed.
And sadly, the more I read, the more this surfaces as being a truth I wish I could deny. I don’t want it to be true. I read to find ways to prove it to not be so. But the more I read, the more I see how mentally, spiritually, intellectually and physically enslaved we are in this culture. And the sad part, we are trained to not see our slavery, imagine it isn’t there, and love it.
Wilson Bryan Key, author of Age of Manipulation worked in media for years. He shared a profound truth. He said that those who think themselves the most intelligent are the ones who were most easily fooled by media propaganda and advertisement. This was his personal observation as a man who worked in the business of fooling people (subliminal advertising) for years.
Basically, yes, it is as simple as that based on my personal research and observations. But, it is equally more complex than that. Nothing is so simple or so complex that it doesn’t warrant more conversation. It would be ignorant for me to believe otherwise. After thousands of years on the planet in our current state, we are still contending with social conflict. So I’d say that there is clearly more that needs to be said. Because we obviously haven’t come a hair’s breathe close to working things out.
But we all know the first step to healing…admitting that one is sick.
In the end, this is not to say that everyone participates in the domestication consciously. But how many honest teachers are forced to follow a curriculum that simply doesn’t work and serves the purpose of those in power, rather than serving and advancing the culture? That quote is for those who control the education system, given that the author directly says so. It is not for those teachers who, within the system, try their best to turn out thinkers, rather than slaves. But they are not enough. The system forces these martyrs to succumb to the will of the state, who succumb to the will of a higher governing body.
In the end, we need to admit when we are sick, or we will never get well. I know I am in a sick culture, and that sickness is contagious, and I live here, amongst the ill. So we know what that means, even for me who is more awake than most…
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I can see how the writer comes to this conclusion. Generally speaking what he writes makes sense. I maintain, however, that the reality is not that simple. Simply stated perhaps, but a very complicated issue. As you have said, the two views are married to each other. In the movie “Roots” Kizzi was a slave, physically speaking. Yet, her heart never complied. To have a real discussion the words slave and free must be defined.
.-= Karen O’Bannon´s last blog ..60 Seconds of Fame =-.
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pittershawn Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 1:39 am
@Karen O’Bannon, You are a brilliant thinker. Not many people hone in on the fact that definitions are important. If our definitions are different, which in this case they might be, it changes how we view things and how we understand each other.
I think to get into the crux of this by talking about the definitions could make this a lengthy discussion.
I will say this, however. I perceive the difference with Roots, which is an excellent example of how we view our positions in life, is that the enslavement was overt and known. What I’m speaking of is not that overt form of slavery. But a slavery that has been hidden through educational colonization. Children were corralled like animals and hauled off to be educated by colonizers, far from the home of their families. They were force fed the ways of these stranger and forced into their religious belief systems. Now, fast forward hundreds of years and triple that in generations. We have become so far removed from what we once believed, and what we once knew to be true, we no longer know ourselves. We think we do, but we are completely oblivious to the fact that our great great great greats as children were taken away and taught to be docile. Kizzy had the experience of being alive to see the outcome of first generation slavery, and was put through second generation slavery. Her experience was immediate. She could consciously decide she would not accept her position.
But if one is not even aware that they are enslaved, they cannot make the choice to not be. And will never understand why they are experiencing the hardships they may experience in life. They may not know why they are slaves to labels, name brands and such. They won’t know why they feel that they must buy Heinz rather than some other ketchup. Or maybe that they shouldn’t be eating bottled ketchup at all. We think we think for ourselves, said Wilson Bryan Key. This is where the issue for me is, in the knowing.
I know I am a physical slave in this culture. But there is a vast difference between recognizing my physical enslavement and believing that that defines my spiritual freedom.
Let me go ahead and delve for a second into my definitions, and I’ll stop with that.
Freedom for me is any state which does not hinder me in any way physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually from being whatever it is I wish to be. It is the freedom to choose what I want for my life in the way that I want it. For example, I wish to live on my planet tax free and grow my own food and participate in this culture when I feel like it. But I don’t have that freedom. I am forced to do everything this culture has decided for my future. I am forced to live the whims of dead men, who came up with a notion for how every human should live on this continent. To me, anything short of me making my own decisions about how I should live on my planet (as long as it does no physical harm to another human being) is slavery.
Slavery is someone else deciding for me how to live spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, physically, and not just through suggestion, but through force. Slavery is taking away the memory that my ancestors did not believe in Christianity, but were forced into it by the point of a sword. And now, all who come after are tricked into believing they’ve chosen Christianity, or any other religion, when in fact, they were forced into it and through omission by oppressors, are clueless as to why they believe what they believe. Where you were born, is what you believe.
Telling me I can pick one of four or five things is not giving me a choice, or allowing me freedom. We are in a universe of infinite possibilities. With that, true freedom allows me to explore all the many millions or billions of infinite possibilities. If I am not allowed to explore all that is possible, then I am a slave, no matter what I feel about myself…and no matter how high my self-esteem. The only freedom I can claim is that of my soul, and even that can be called into question if I don’t examine how I came to believe the things I now believe. For all I know, colonization and oppression has effectively trained me to believe through generations, that my beliefs are my own. Including what I believe about my very soul.
I personally examine everything and make no assumptions because I believe my self esteem is strong. No matter how positive an outlook I have, I examine even that. I think all, good and bad views, should be examined for their source. I’ve found that what I thought was positive, was really a trick to keep me docile. And freeing myself from this supposed positive thing, elevated me to a new level of joy, assuredness and self esteem.
I know I know, I’m babbling. Don’t beat me. LOL.
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Actually, you are not babbling. What you’ve said makes perfect sense. But I have to wonder if you realize that the freedom you speak of is never going to be. The truth is we are all slaves to something. Slaves to sin or righteousness. Slaves to the law. Slaves to the lender, and so on. And that’s not always a bad thing. If you had the right to get in your car and just drive any way you wanted to whenever you wanted to I guarantee you wouldn’t live very long. All societies must have rules. Slavery.
While I’ll admit some things have been imposed on us, and, yes, even so long ago that we no longer realize the imposition, that is one of the things that makes this country we live in so great (in my opinion). We do have the “freedom” to search for whatever truth we seek. And, may I add, any wise person will do that. I am a Christian, born in a Christian society. But, unlike many, I did not blindly accept the faith. I questioned it and made it mine before I embraced it. Now I’m a slave to it. A happy slave. And so on and so on.
.-= Karen O’Bannon´s last blog ..Tiger’s Web =-.
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pittershawn Reply:
December 27th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Tell it sis, tell it. Yes, if there is one thing I am fully aware of, it is my slave status. And it does not stop me from seeking truth, nor seeking a way out of my slavery, if not for me, for my lineage. Every society had rules, but not laws forced upon the population. Rules were/are just ways of living that simply ‘were’ by nature. Not by imposition from another human being. One simply needed to know that the rule of gravity says you will fall. And others in the village would share that rule with you. But they had no need to force this rule upon you, because nature would teach you the hard way if you did not recognize this rule of nature. Those were the rules back in the day. I believe freedom can be. But as long as we believe it cannot be, then it won’t be. Our beliefs guides possibility and ultimately, change.
I have no religious beliefs, as the definition of religion goes. Did you know the original meaning of the word religion is ‘to bind’? I am a spiritual creature that lives in a powerful universe. I obey the laws of the universe, because they are ever lasting, while also changing. It is all duality. And it is all what it is. I’ve done enough research to know that religion has been the bane of human’s existence since its inception. More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other belief system on earth. But, to each his own. From what I’ve observed personally, and this is just my experience, 80 percent of the Christians I’ve encountered are not even remotely as centered as I am. So many I’ve met lie, drink, hang out in low life clubs, curse, carry on, and have very unpleasant personalities. But again, that is my experience across 42 years of living and no less than a half a dozen churches. What is even worse, many are pretenders. They pretend sweetness and kindness, but when the clouds form in the sky, their true nature surfaces. As I’ve observed other religons, I see how they are not much different. All are spiritually enslaving. And bereft of real humanity at the core of what I believe humanity should be.
It is lovely to converse with someone who has their wits about them. Thanks so much for sharing your views. It actually is fodder for me to critically examine what I’ve come to know. Some things solidify, other things I dig deeper and allow me to consider. All are good. It is how we grow, through the good and the bad, the agreed and not agreed on, and others willing to share a piece of their soul. Thank you, Karen. You are an amazing soul. May the universe continue to hold you in its care.
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