As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Freedom From Mental Slavery,” and originally posted it to my own wall…
“If You’re Afraid to Speak Out Against Tyranny, You Are ALREADY A SLAVE”
My Commentary: Silence? “That is a slave’s answer!”
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork, being shared by an acquaintance from here, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“Illusion: your vote is meaningless when the system is corrupt.”
My Commentary: “A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” – Lysander Spooner
I originally posted the following video and quote onto my Facebook wall…
The Jones Plantation:
[youtube_sc url=”vb8Rj5xkDPk”]
“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Free man, Jourdan Anderson, completely owns his former “master”
In Rediscovered Letter From 1865, Former Slave Tells Old Master To Shove It:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/in-recently-discovered-le_n_1247288.html
(Trymaine Lee) In the summer of 1865, a former slave by the name of Jourdan Anderson sent a letter to his former master. And 147 years later, the document reads as richly as it must have back then.
The roughly 800-word letter, which has resurfaced via various blogs, websites, Twitter and Facebook, is a response to a missive from Colonel P.H. Anderson, Jourdan’s former master back in Big Spring, Tennessee. Apparently, Col. Anderson had written Jourdan asking him to come on back to the big house to work.
My Commentary: This is an awesome use of satire, and because of its tone, I have no doubt that Jourdan’s former monster of a “master” read the letter through-and-through: a pretty good measure of its success! 🙂
The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my poem, “The Slave-State of Corporate Capitalism“…
(continuation of a first discussion, which took place here)
Rayn: I’ve witnessed the underclass and understood its necessary permanence in a capitalistic world where commercialism and technology are the new imperialisms, and the race to manufacture and sell has caused America to declare a war on poverty and ignorance, and punish those assumed guilty with life-sentences of servitude to dead-end jobs that trickle down minimum wages and allow the rich to get richer, while the rest get deceived into thinking that they, too, can one day become the next John D. Rockefeller, yet, never do, because the fruits of labor have been replaced with high-tech paper, suitable to be used for the purchase of the same illusions of necessity and convenience that they’ve spent their work day creating…
Keith M.: Thank you!
Rayn: You’re most welcome!
Thomas Pr.: There is this guy James at work. He graduated Duke on Scholarship. He works for me. I tell him how it is with the back of my hand upside his head.
AtLas’: Truth… Love it
