“Slave labor anywhere threatens real jobs everywhere.” When the idea of profit is its justification, watch out! Rulers tend to chase vast potential wealth and while most people are willing to pay something to end slavery few are willing to make the inevitable great sacrifice: Higher market prices. Unlike early slaves (a piece of expensive property needing to be maintained and accommodated) Automatons are cost-effective; relatively cheap, abundant, and easily replaceable commodities. Although they differ in the extent of violence and intimidation used, they both share one key objective; the slave must be broken; divided, conquered, and unleashed within a socially alienating arena where “dog eats dog.” Trust and loyalty must be shifted from slave to owner, from employee to employer. According to Willie Lynches’ manifesto (The Making of a Slave –James River, Virginia, 1712), this is best accomplished by maintaining an atmosphere of fear, distrust, and envy. Further, slaves need to be selected, trained, and assigned (another cog in the economic wheel), based on individual levels of weakness, gullibility, and deprivation. Is it any different today? It’s worse! It’s insidious (devious, sinister, and deceptive). Alas! The cloak and dagger of the banking system: Credit and Debit. Thus enters the unsatiable need for consumerism, hedonism, and sex. Are you free to spend and party or simply need temporary escapes from the truth: You are just another automaton, another disposable cog in the economic wheel. But today’s slavery can’t be limited to race, color, or creed/religion. The new slave is faceless, temporary, highly profitable, legally concealed, and, by way of competition, completely ruthless. They are unleashed like sharks and Piranhas to prey upon each other; like termites in the shadows feasting on the wooden foundations of the currently decaying social order. Thus, comes the historically eventual fall of empires. Is America next? Seemingly always underestimated is the amount of pressure the poor and middle class can take. But when the gluttony from the top encroaches on what little is left for the bottom feeders – watch out. Anarchy and revolution can rise like smoke and where there is smoke there is fire; and where there is fire, death and destruction follows. But America has indeed learned the lessons of history. To control the level of inherent resistance and revolt understand there will always be a need for the poor and suffering. Using unemployment and social service benefits (LIKE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND DISABILITY) to maintain socio-economic stability they, the poor lower middle class, are important surplus bodies, automatons to accommodate, tolerate and activate whenever the current labor force steps out of line. How does that feel? Thus enters the booming field of mental health … LETS MEDICATE! Almost every morning you rise like a horse to the bell at the starting gate of the global economic racetrack. Sometimes you have time for breakfast or a workout, but eventually, you must put on your appropriate monkey suit and wear the mask of “Yassa Master” I’ll get right to it. You get the kids off to school or the babysitter and hop into your means of transportation to battle your way through traffic congestion. You get to your destination and another bell goes off; you diligently perform your task with some indifference. You pull your shift and the bell rings: Free time; time to MEDICATE; blow off some steam and pay the tab. Eventually, last bell; time to go home, play master of the house, eat, go to bed, and wait for that next first bell to ring. We’ll be discussing the effects of all these bells in our next issue. Meanwhile ask yourself: Do you work to live or do you live to work … OBEY! Don’t Belong I don’t belong! I don’t want to belong I don’t want! To here – to this – adjust – it’s wrong This here now place without grass or trees Cept in parks scattered here and there to simulate and tease I can’t find pace or space to ease my mind from the constant noise The constant flow of cars, trucks and buses that never cease to pass The constant flow of people rushing, screaming & fighting, a people dis-eased – more A Force-fed congestion deep within – outpoured upon each other – a people in discord I’m void! Quiet mornings and peaceful nights Can’t hear the wind flowing through the trees or the chirping birds therein There’s is no escape, there is no appease, there’s not even a please But Please! I need to ease or cease I’m haunted onto disgust By memories I can’t seem to shake Of yards, pools, and courts not public but mine to choose who to invite or lose, Of spacious schools for learn not burn and youth run stores well kept Cops I rarely saw – firemen I rarely heard Churches that never begged – poor that knew their place Homes! Where to be at one I need not far go Space! Where for everything – found – its special place And yet now – crowds – in, out and all around Surrounding, threatening, bargaining Paying to have me – Paying to get rid of me Me! Another piece of merchandise online – I must decide To live or die – and – on what side To the outside, even mom and dad – a lie No time to sob or regret – no time to forget Me online – to live or die – I must decide Live or Die – Must Decide Read More From This Writer All Post Art Books & Poems Business Column Community Community News Education Entertainment español Food & Culture Health Interviews Media Military & Veterans Music Peace People Politics Sports Technology NEW SLAVES FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Part 2: Slaves vs Automatons March 4, 2024/No Comments Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Read More… Read More NEW SLAVES FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY