Academy of Ideas – May 7, 2022
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I think that excessive religion also breeds mental illness. As they say “too much of anything…”.
THIS INSTITUTIONAL RACISM CAUSES MENTAL ILLNESS
After the racist TV adverts where black men were put with white women
the black women’s caucus sued Barclays bank, a big offender of these racist ads
for an undisclosed sum as it discriminated against black women and suggested
that they were not good enough for their own men
only white women were.
Expect over the next few weeks a new load of adverts with white men with black women
it would be laughable if it were not so racist
But same thing in Asia, Middle East – using European/white ethnicities to advertise products – trying to make people dissatisfied with who they are – brainwashing – selling fake tan over here in Europe and selling bleaching creams/lotions to Asians/middle easterns – insane.
The supermarket ASDA wil not use any white people at all in their ads.
There is a big campaign to boycott all these racist ads and their products
in the UK racism is registered as a hate crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaiBHkqmVUo
Shouldn’t you provide some peer-approved expert proof for your claims otherwise why shouldn’t we simply regard them as Wildly Speculative Conspiracy Theories?
only those whose consciousness rests
in outside fantasmagorias . who is
connected with his inward soul is not
afflicted by outside madness .
REST IN PEACE !
When you accept Christ as your savior, you not only recieve the ‘Mind of Christ’ but also the guiding gift of the Comforter aka The Holy Spirit. You become reborn as a New Creaure.
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life”.
John 4:14 KJV
I sometimes believe ten impossible things before breakfast, just like Jung.
How about those people who spend their lives terrified that when they die they are going to spend eternity burning in Hell?
Sounds like new-age psychobabble to me.
It’s got nothing to do with religion. It’s to do with being crushed by endless filthy vermin who want a piece of you and the fact that the entire human race will back the vermin up because it’s “the law”, and because there’s no way out ever. I know because I’m “mental” in exactly that way.
In the Weishaupt Conspiracy, destroying goy religions, which meant Christianity the most, was an important weapon, but it also helps the criminal class in general, because Christians act, or serve, as the policeman. I have seen that atheism and depression have a big overlap. My dad adopted atheism at age fifteen and tried to teach it to us, but was never really happy and had some nutty children. At fourteen I was trying to teach God to him because of my experiences and mentality. I was up against the writing of Aldous Huxley and other Darwinists. Craig at FTFE is atheist, but has needed 23 operations to stay alive at about age 40. Science does not help us mentally. What this talk says about Nietzsche is not very accurate~~he was atheist and went mad. My own Taoist scheme is an alternative mysticism.
The lack of religion does not breeds mental illness..
It is the lack of spirituality which breeds mental illness..
Religion must recognize creation and place God the creator at the head.
A feel-good religion that puts you on top or some philosopher on top and you’re wasting your time.
What we have just seen is ‘new-age’ stuff absent of God.
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(Nietzsche) felt the agony, the suffering, and the misery of a godless world so intensely, at a time when others were yet blind to its tremendous consequence, that he was able to experience in advance, as it were, the fate of a coming generation.
Walter Kaufman
…What chutzpah…
This is so wrong. Its fine for me on a superficial level to rant on about the thicko sheeple, even if it’s a valid comment and truth.
But one should, if time permits, look at the deeper malaise. We constantly hear about the class system and how the ‘working class’ now consider themselves to be middle class. This is a sheeple control mechanism.
Take a typical lamb or sheeple. At birth they are registered into the system by penalty of crime, they named and that name is their legal title. They then get ripped away from their parents, or more often their ‘parent’, & are then put through the brainwashing system called an education.
Never mind that the education they receive is a self limiting experience based on many lies. Such as anthropogenic climate change, and evolution.
It is fair to say that lambs and sheeple are not educated about how the world really works, and how they can get the best out of what is on offer. It can take decades sheeple years (adulthood) to get to grips with the many designed traps which most fall into.
Brief list: debt, gambling, drugs, alcohol, general materialsm, gaming, porn, & all the prejudices that are forced into lamb and sheeple behaviours.
Once, religion was revered by the masses. They generally worked hard, but their down time was in part accupied with the basic problems of life. Something which the church was ill equipped to deal with, and this lead to organised Labour.
These days, with fractured living, shifts, and all the systems designed to fill your time with chaff, sheeple have no time for religion, or even to question the constructs which are thrown at them on a daily basis. There’s almost no common disccusion about things which really matter. Even if you felt so inclined to have a serious chat with a sheeple, or some sheeple, there’s almost no chance of you meeting someone who is ready to do the same. Compounding this, is the fact that every sheeple has their belief systems tweaked by the fake news, daily, or even hourly.
Don’t forget that when religion and the church played a bigger part in society, rams died in their 40s, ewes often died in child birth, and lambs died in large numbers at all times. So death was kinda in your face. Nowadays, sheeple live much longer, so the potential to get wiser, more clued up, must be prevented. So all this extra time must be filled, & the elites are very good at producing filler. I’ve said this more than several times. If the church got a weekly total of 2 million every week, and this was more or less consistent over decades, and then, all of a sudden, churches started to fill up, so after a 6 month period, it went from 2 million, to 6 million, & growing, the elites would start to get very worried that the sheeple were making free choices about their time, and what they did in that time. So the mess that we see today, and I won’t list them, but they’re pretty bad. This is exactly what the elites want. All this phaff about drugs, depression, mental health, & the cost of living cruse, and that they care, is utter crap. If they cared, the BBC would be shut down.
Why do you think they want Angela Open legs Rayner to lead Labour, because it will make voting hot again. Poor Angela. Working class gal fights Big Dog Classics Johnson.
Now, I am no apologist for thicko sheeple. But there’s no doubt, they are victims, usually willing victims. Just imagine a world without sport, no TV, no pop, or crass music, no fashion, no advertising, and no debt.
If you like organised religion, fair enough, but we don’t need it. The sheeple in Russia and China, went, and are still going through religious repression, but they’ve not been harmed, anymore than Western sheeple who have a choice. Maybe they go to church when Songs of Praise is on at their local?
You can’t fix things by going from the current repression to religious repression.
The original function of a race’s religion was to unite & maintain the masses of the race into a collective force governed by the Brahmins, shamans or priest-kings. With the internal or external corruption/elimination of this spiritual foundation the race becomes fractured into ‘individuals’ who then stray & adopt various alien divisive doctrines inimical to racial collectivism & survival: Christianity, Communism, atheism, egalitarianism, materialism etc.—which all divide & debilitate the race. Thus we learn that only a new racial religion can resurrect & cement the race into a new will to power: The Book of the Law.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm
In perspective of the present endtime progressing towards the end.. there cannot be mental health without a spiritual life. Insanity wil increase dramatically till the Transformation occurs.
the souls (equilibrium) of all creatures
is like a calm lake . if you always throw
stones (problems) into it it revolts with
waves uninteruptedly . so best solution :
DONT CREATE POLITICAL PROBLEMS !
I think Rixon has good taste on spiritual matters; I liked that video a lot.
Academy of Ideas has a series called “The Pursuit of Liberty”:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYxecbGotUyOGDXLw2M4NR4uK6WrAFbt
They all provide useful learning perspectives.
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More substantial, universal and compatible with all major religions are efforts to overcome our false selves. “He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30.
Why a religion focused on the true nature of God and of self is necessary is because unless our lives are properly rooted in the reality of the natural and supernatural orders, then we are left to our own devices which end up becoming all manner distortions made up out of our hinged minds. There are all sorts of methods we use to get us out of, or to overcome, our egocentricities and selfishness as we “grow up”, such as abandoning ourselves to various duties, loyalties, exercises and organizations, but usually we do so out of some pursuit or expectation of a temporal reward and personal gain. Yet most of our pursuits just end up feeding that same old ego and false self, usually far removed from any oneness with God.
Also, we see people abandoning or distorting their consciences serving in the military or working for a corporations, doing what is “necessary”, such that when we see what they do to others in their way we can only say that they are all insane or unhinged. We also have to wonder if such obedience is a substation for true religion, where these people have simply abandoned their childish egos only to become one with an organism which is nothing more than the projections or the collectivity of false egos and misplaced worship and allegiance to God.
Most people I have dealt with in my life who have mental disorders and have come under some kind of effect control, I have seen their Christian faith play a very important role in their help and recoveries. I do not know how effective Hinduism or Islam is with respect to those with mental disorders but perhaps the prevalence is less with those who practice those religions as well. What I have also seen very clearly is that people with serious addictions to various forms of substance abuse is a saving and strength from a reaching to or faith and reliance on that “higher power”, usually Christ. Similarly, when people with mental disorders can first recognize they have a problem which they cannot overcome by themselves and they are able to reach out not only to others but up to that higher realm of peace and stability, that real person and power of God, the recoveries are even more remarkable. “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of”, Tennyson.
As our temporal order is sustained obviously by other dimensions and an intelligence well beyond our own which we cannot comprehend, so also the ground of our own beings goes well beyond our senses and knowledge built on temporal sense data and our rather impoverished points of views. In most of us yet to be awakened is the desire in our centers to consciously go to God, to be united to him, and to be filled with him. Perhaps the beatific vision is not so much to see God as he is but simply to be at one with Him such that we can first see and do things as they are meant to be seen and done. To do this, to start this journey we as persons have to make a clear choice for the true God of ultimate love and goodness and to start that climb to overcome our false selves and all that is incompatible with him and displeasing to his nature, will and order. Otherwise we are doomed to the insanity of our own egos and limitations.
“in the UK racism is registered as a hate crime”
There’s no racism in the uk. What there is is a lot of people that are forced to live cheek by jowel with people they hate, and those people happen to be of another race, so they call them names based upon that. Anything beyond the basic obvious things that are “against the law” (like murder) are just ,pre fascist control by your fascists overseers. Why can’t you tell someone you hate them if they have a different skin colour? Or a different religion? Because it’s “against the law”? The uk and everyone in it that goes along with that are fascists.
People who believe in a jewish book are the ones who breed mental illness. The three Abrahamic religions are all controlled by one group of people. It’s as simple as that.
I have a suspicion that the ‘lack of religion’ in this contest has in mind the kind of society in which religion was a prominent part of social life: In the Christian context, people went to church on Sundays, togged out in their ‘Sunday best’, then consumed a festive Sunday lunch at home with family and friends, or in the pub. There were a number of observed holy days throughoit the year, each with its own ritual. To take part in these rituals was as demanding as any etiquette. Not to do so was was not ‘proper’. I firmly believe that a context like this was very stablising: it structured the calendar year, and thereby helped peopele avoid333333333333333 the mind-numbing ‘every day is just like all of them’ ennui. Religion in the sense I am using it provides fun-things to look forward to: occasions in which people get together with the intention of being nice. That is healthy.
Was it the most high, the one with absolute power, who said”power corrupts. absolute power…” You know the rest.
“The three Abrahamic religions are all controlled by one group of people. It’s as simple as that.”
Is it? Thanks for telling us. I was thinking they’re each seperately controlled by a bunch of greedy liars, but now I know better.
@ LEWIS JONES
from hindu gurus i have : those on
way to enlightment have to go through
the valley of madness . the most are
stuck like Niezsche because they dont
get the right guru/master . this way of
inner development (interesting Devil
in this word) has nothing to do with
our brainthinking and how our brain
understands this world . it is a drifting
to other dimensions our brainautomat
cannot grasp . so nobody should make
jokes over real lunatics . they are just
stuck and if we look into our world
today : are we not all lunatics more or
less ?
We would also have to discuss our relationship with time; it’s well-known that anticipation can make us suffer the same thing many times and be a burden, and mulling over a past event too much can have the same effect. We are not taught the simple things much.
gandi was right : THERE IS NO
SPIRITUAL JUDAISM !
christian NT has some spirituality from
buddism,hinduism,gnosis,dionysos .
why should people in western world
today be ocupied by god when they
even dont have time for their children ?
nobody tells them that state + teachers
and bosses later crippling them .
forming them into functioning slaves
of the ruling power people of this
demonic world .
there is no sin for the average decent
people behaving like sheeple since
they are pressed into their act .
dangerous are only the slick/clever
who have to much brains !
Agree with those who say it’s lack of spirituality, not religion, that breeds mental illness (I do Christ, not religion, which is just man-made doctrines). And I love the channel Academy of Ideas!
The video is well made but is a fail. It says religion is based on mythos BUT we live in a post mythos world. The fairy tales we used to believe to make sense of the world have been busted by science and understanding.
An island is not the back of a turtle, lightning does not come from an angry god, the sun is not a god or a flat disc, the earth is not flat nor are the stars, moon, sun, planets equidistant from an observer on earth, and the earth is not the center of the universe. All those ideas have been superceded, and if you still believe in any on them then are you not misinformed?
Humans have transcended most myth, but they still have one big hangup – they do not know where they came from – and that mystery is solved by either evolving on the planet over millions of years OR some alien race put us here.
The best idea yet concerning human origin is that the Anunnaki genetically engineered us from local hominids. There is ample evidence for this and the big smoking gun are our 23 chromosome pairs which just came out of nowhere. All apes and monkeys have 24 pair, so how did Natural Selection make us with 23? And if that happened there would still be many humans with 24, but there are none. 23 is an impossibility without outside interference.
So it is a dead ringer that humans were genetically engineered. Thus any rational person would suspect tampering with our genes. Then we have a holy book that says the Elohim created us in their image. All plural. No God, just aliens we call gods.
Humans appear to be domesticated – needing clothing and shelter. The world abounds with prisons and economic slave systems. All unnatural just like humans themselves, thus any rational person soon concludes humans are artificial constructed beings and religion is part of the manipulation.
Bottom line? Humans – the naked ape in the ice age – should not exist. Look at your dog and look at your cat – lots of fur, so where in the hell is yours? And your huge brain – also totally unnatural. Homo Erectus brain is 500 cc, so how did yours get 1500 cc just like that?
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How do you give hope to a specie that should not exist?
Humans are a damned specie – even Revelations confirms that – but look at how we are eating up the planet like a plague – we are unsustainable creatures always at war, etc.
Thus to control the unnatural human population these big brained Homo Erectus hybrids are given myths to pacify them – humans are told they can live forever (false) and they can go to heaven (false – they are trapped on earth and heaven is really just space empire in the heavens above). Myth is essential to the control of humans. Religion uses myth to mentally enslave people.
So I have firmly concluded that humans are slave animals trapped on a prison planet under constant surveillance and control by aliens above – which explains why UFO are seen but no contact. Those who own this planet care nothing about the prisoners and want nothing to do with us – and since we don’t belong in the ecosystem probably want to eliminate us or use us for off world slave labor or even as food. Like any farm, the farmer does not tell the livestock his intentions.
Now, of course, my message will not be liked or accepted very easily except by a small slice of brutally honest truthseekers – because it does not make you feel good. Religion says God love you. Jesus says you can go to heaven. Those ideas sell. The idea that we are genetically created slaves, hybrids gone feral on a planet – that has little appeal to most humans who are just scared shitless about being alive and dying.
So religion does one main thing for conscious self aware creatures – it passifies the mind concerning the fear of death or non-existence. Religion says that when you die you don’t die.
Came across this…..
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Archbishop Welby and the Woke Bishops of the Church of England.
In the early ’60s when we first got cars we would drive down into rural Kent to visit the country pubs.
On one visit on entering there was a group of 4 lads, very jolly but not drunk. They turned out to be trainee CoE priests from a local Church of England training college.
Me, being a Primitive Methodist, always found it fun to engage with CoE people. The CoE is nothing more than the Church of Rome without confession or Mass. It has all their smells and bells and authoritarianism.
I began ragging them about the CoE and one, who was quite tipsy, said ‘we are not really Christians we are Marxists and intend to rot the church from the inside’.
One, who was not so tipsy, then jumped up and rather angrily marched them all out leaving their half full glasses of beer.
I never thought much about it until now. However the behaviour of Archbishop Welby has made me recall that event
Welby is surely far closer to Cultural Marxism than Christianity and so are many of the Bishops.
Seems that those 4 have been promoted up to the highest levels of the CoE and have been very successful in their aim.
Black Pete took the words right out of my mouth with his accurate comment at the top; “excessive religion also breeds mental illness.” In life, true success with most things requires sensible balance.
@ Nico X…
it seems that indivdualism ( itself an absurdity) is rooted in near eastern monotheism… and has been exported globally…
Atenism…. a religious state monopoly designed to murder the Gods and place the son of man beneath the solar disk and at the centre of creation.. the halo of angels and saints…
being Promethean.. Apollonian or Luciferic in nature .. there is some Catholic esoterica of interest that equates the Christ the Morning Star as Lucifer.. (and not as fringe as one maypresumes….drawing in the ahem ‘fatima’ cult)..
Akhen-Aten would approve.. (the first ‘individual’)..
NB… oh and a long skull to boot…hehe..
eddieb–THE jEW wELBY DOES a terrible impression of a Christian and European. (caps error)
It isn’t that religion is necessary because it encourages a habit of piousness in men, as suggest above. I don’t dispute that religion may have such a civilizing functionality but it doesn’t follow that the value of religious contemplation is a measure of its monastic rigour. Nor does religious sentiment derive from systems of moral codification. Religion isn’t “necessary,” it’s innate.
Men have experiences other than the corporeal or material for which meaning is sought. Men meet aliens. They meet angels. (I’ve met both.) Men witness the intrusion of spectres and hear the knocking of kobolds. They get caught in storms which bring inundations of bullfrogs or gasping mackerel from the sky.
Men see monsters in shadows, whether there are monsters there or not. Men are chased by Sasquatch posses and ambushed by ravenous lycanthropes.
If religion were successfully outlawed and it came to be that, within a couple of generations, no one, any longer, had any knowledge of churches or their teachings, the innate propensity within men, to deliberate the quintessence of being and to seek for meaning, would resurface quickly again because inquisitiveness about God can’t be stymied. There is a primal imperative urging men to a greater understanding of God, so that even if churches were long forgotten, religious sentiment wouldn’t disappear. God is irrepresible.
The original paradigm provided as a guide to men, for their reverential insight, was the order discernable in nature.
With or without priestly oversight, men will seek to satisfy themselves of meaningful purpose in creation, with a greater or lesser sophistication of ideas. Before there were churches, men were informed religiously by the cycle of the seasons; by fertile and fallow interval; by the grandeur of ocean tides; by the splendour of the animal and plant kingdoms; by the skewed majesty of the celestial ecliptic, with its peek-a-boo horizon of bobbing stellar azimuths. In contemplation of these, I doubt that the inscrutability of being troubled early men especially; certainly not with the modern-era existential vogue of despair fetishism. Querilous formulations are of a later age, although incipient during the Neolithic.
A cosmic intelligence, it seems to me, guides men’s growth by apprehensions of riddles. Mysteries abound on Earth. It’s difficult, in fact, to conceive of a planet where mystery wouldn’t inform the world-soul or psyches of its creatures. Deep thought satisfies a requirement God expects of man.
Modern religion is prescriptive and seeks to constrain imagination. Each foundational religious tradition throughout history has been co-opted for its ready-made civic utility, as provisioning of enduring order in the adoptive realm.
As Shamen morphs into Sacerdote, litany transmutes into statute; tithes become the King’s taxes, so, God, the life-giver, is countermanded by God, the lawgiver.
Religious rapture is similar to neurotic hysteria. The gift of prophecy might derive from undiagnosed schizophrenia. Ezekiel could have been delusional or else primed upon psychotropics. His narrative is certainly suggestive of a tryptamine perspective.
Why the processional languor of waiting upon Holy Communion, when a whirling dance in Dervish style, will afford you direct experience of the Holy Spirit?
Which is the more rewarding ritual, the passive or the active; one metaphor, the other method; one by slow rote, the other by rapid jig?
There will never be such a thing as a world without transcendental yearning; a world in which men do not perceive or attempt to commune with the Numinous.
We are autonomous thought within the Universal Mind. I favour the Earth as a cosmic school model. If our purpose is to gather experiential data, to add to the Akashic archive, then, by inference, it is the mind unencumbered by received knowledge, which God favours. The notion that surrendering your free mind to formatted worship is worthy of God’s purposes, intimates an absence of gnosis or direct communion with spirit. The way reveals itself while you search but you’ll miss the route that’s meant for you, if you circle by your custom, to receive benediction, not from God but from vicarious agency claiming to dispense God’s will. A free and reverend mind honours God.
Domination and power hierarchies are inescapable. We have varying degrees of control over others and varying degrees of dependencies on others. From this we get:
1- Selfish Master
Does not love his subject slave, either abuses or due to lack of responsibility abandons his/her slave(s). His power is temporary too, probably he cheated by keeping his slaves weak rather than becoming stronger himself.
2- Selfless Master
Loves his subject slave(s), protects independence of his/her slave(s) and does not free them before empowering them.
3- Selfish Slave
Can’t respect a selfless-master, he/she seeks freedom (lack of responsibility) from the will of any master in favor of his short-term pleasures, that is why he/she becomes slave of many selfish-masters along the way. Believes in freewill and lacks willpower.
4- Selfless Slave
Respects his master and forms the best possible beneficial master/slave relationship. Develops willpower and is responsible.
Some have only one master, while others have many masters. It is not a loving act to free/release/abandon your child/creation/slave before empowering him/her/it first. A loving master “sacrifices his power” to protect the independence of his/her slave! many selfish masters are selfish slaves simultaneously and vice versa.
There is no Freewill and Freedom! There is only Willpower and Power and “Sacrifice of Power”, and responsibility and varying degrees of dependence and independence.
Slavery is not inherently bad or harmful, depends on the type of Master and Slave. One’s fears and hopes are defined in this master and slave relationship.
my two rials
antiseptic–in the 1970s I was not condemnatory of insanity but said you had to take it further for it to get good. My day was brightened on Sunday by a nutter; she said she seems to take DMT every four years.
@ مقداد وفائی
Ha ha.. spoken like a true camel trader… don’t forget to check the teeth…
Abrahamic Religions are Institutionalized Mental Illness.
It’s a trap laid for people who look for meaning and an escape from the stupidity of the jewish mother mind which is western “culture” – good people – to keep them in kindergarten of duality – another aspect of jewish mind.
Earn your liberation by using intuition (grace) and study – seek and you shall find – tip, it ain’t no modern new age translation of what the sages knew way way before the jews invented christianity.
@ my two rials
When a man becomes a commodity to be sold at market and a value of coinage is deemed to be the measure of his worth, it is self-evidently wrongful – a defilement of dignity and debasement of spirit.
If a man is captured, separated from his home and his family then removed to a far away, unfamiliar land, how can the observance of an etiquette by slave-owners, be upheld, as a distinguishing and superior expression of morality?
Such a spectacular contradiction cannot be reasoned through at all satisfactorily. It must surely be an expression of willpower to conjugate morality without any personal conscienceness interpolating. Advocating for comfort-slavery involves exceptional hauteur, an infallibility complex, derived from a limited intelligence. As a reiteration of dogmas, there’s no risk in what you say. You cannot be challenged philosophically because your religion permits slavery. Your thoughts are predicated, therefore, upon an immutable dogma and the validity of the predicate is taken as axiomatic in your regard. If the validity of slave commerce is a given, then you have no need to question its moral legitimacy, nor its depredations. Your willpower is picareque and impertinent.
Slavery historically was nearly always, exclusively a trade in natives from lands, other than those from which the slave owners originated. The enslavement of others is a manifestation of power, a quality you esteem but I see no intrinsic worthiness in. power. It is not meretricious of itself. It may promise preferred government but that would depend on your preferences.
Do you favour theocratic government? An honest question, which occurs to me because I’m uncertain as to the ideal you aspire to, in nurturing willpower to accrue power. Is power not bound by the provisons of intention?
Who is it that ensures the humane treatment of slaves en route to auction? Is there an etiquette for vendors too? Does the selfless trader in men, ensure that his captives travel by business-class caravan?
When a man becomes a chattel, how easily does the master establish his authority, when the newly acquired possession cannot understand anything the master says? How does the enslaved man adjust to unknown customs; to foreign religious observance; to distasteful foods; to the indignity of the enforced redefining of his being?
Abduction and imprisonment doesn’t make a victim immediately amenable to his new role and it’s likely to be a while before he were fully persuaded of the benefits of compliant servitude and graciously surrender to the lofty wisdom of selflessness in service.
Does a selfless master never get frustrated enough to reprimand the slave who’s slow of wit? Does a selfless master not reserve the right unto himself, to physically punish an incompetent slave, when it is with benevolent intent; that the wretch might yet become a slave worthy of the master?
Unless children are born to slavery and raised as slaves, then the experience of the slave is one of shock; of emotional distresses and psychological dislocation and duress.
When a soldier who bore arms against you in battle is taken as a slave, this too is manifest power. Enslaving an enemy soldier might be an act of mercy, though. Most people, I would hazard, would accept that enslaving a man who sought to kill you, is somewhat more justifiable, even if it were just pragmatic and precautionary.
A selfless master would indeed require great willpower, to spare the slave contemptuousness, though he so recently killed your kinsmen in the field.
Where armies invade other people’s lands and the inhabitants of those lands seek to defend themselves by arms but are defeated, power is with the victors. Does power recommend itself in its own achievement? When hostile invaders proceed to seize surviving natives as bounty, it reveals commercial motive and ungodly enterprise, bereft of nobler ambition. It attenuates to ethnic cleansing. Unilateral warfaring can’t make claim to higher ethical disposition.
Ethical slavery is still slavery. An exemplary standard for the benevolent ownership of men, women and children may be a religious compunction but if that religion recognizes no moral injunction against the commerce in human souls, then how can benevolent reciprocity between a master and slave, be tendered as a moral model?
If slavery, of itself, is not intrinsically reprehensible, then, the cruelty and debasement of the transatlantic slave trade could only have come about because the jews of Brazil and the Spice Islands, lacked the paradigmatic protocols to guide them in their treatment of their property. If the jews of Surinam had only just been nicer, then perhaps, the jewish population of Jodensavanne wouldn’t have been massacred in their entirety, during the retributive frenzy of the African slave rebellion of 1832..
Contemporary slavery, furthermore, mustn’t be romaniticized. It is, for the greater part, the trafficking of children on demand, for purchase, by an international clientele of paedophiles.
Should we satisfy ourselves that a terrified infant is freely expressing her will in consenting to her master’s predation? Of course, a selfless master would claim the child as his lawful wife, before violating her.
Those who would exculpate evil and bring nourishment to demons, whilst instructing upon ethics, are a familiar enough lobby these days. At least you’ll have bolsheviks to keep you company.