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Chapter 8 : SLAVERY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Having addressed the evolution of caged existence from a species perspective, let us look at it from the individual's viewpoint. It is imperative to state that the slaves are as responsible, if not more so, than the masters for their predicament. The masters have set the agenda and, while it is not life-affirming or healthy, they should be given credit for at least having one.
The slaves, on the other hand, have allowed themselves to become 'survivors', simply aiming to avoid the whip and pacing their cages day after day while they help the masters fulfill their dreams. Having abdicated their own healthy internal agenda, they are inevitably bereft of pride and pass their days killing the pain that caged existence brings. There are no more pathetic creatures on the planet than these domesticated animals.
When the human animal transforms from wild to caged, as a function of the betrayal of its genetic code, it begins to die. At best it becomes an appendage of the master. Its sole reason to exist is to perform some task that the master sets, otherwise it is completely expendable. It is essential that it be a worthwhile member of society, a useful human. To be useful clearly implies to be used, to be a tool. Life as an end in itself disappears. Having lost ownership and control of life means that only pseudo life continues.
The whole master-slave dynamic depends upon the slave being willing to play the game. No slave means no master. Each additional slave gives the master more power. As a result, the fellow slave is ultimately more the enemy of an individual slave pursuing its internal agenda than the master itself. After ten thousand years of this process, those who were less inclined to play this game have been eliminated and those that remain have proven from generation to generation that they are willing to be accomplices to it. We have the dubious distinction of being the survivors of this anti-life selection process. We are the bottom of the bottom. Even our internal agendas become suspect having been thus selected. The wolf has turned into a lapdog and it is hard to find any remnant of the proud ancestor any more.
Generation after generation of human domesticated animals have been bred and trained in this manner. When animals breed, they tend to do everything in their power to ensure that their offspring have the optimal chance of successfully fulfilling their internal agenda. It is not unusual for them to defer reproducing or not reproduce at all if these requirements are not met. We have come to the point as a species that we are willing to breed even in the most toxic and restrictive environments imaginable for the actualization of our natures. If we could say that each parent has truly done its best to break out of the cage in which it had found itself in order to enhance its genetic material's proper development, we could have some pride in ourselves. Unfortunately, such is far from the reality of what has taken place.
Rather than looking for a way for the offspring to break free, the parent plays the role of the master's surrogate, training the child that it must be good, it must fit in, it must obey, and above all it must make sure that master never ever gets upset. The child is controlled in whatever way is most effective to achieve these objectives, learning to be a good slave. Parents hope that their child will be a successful slave, learning to play the game better than the other children so that it can win the more desirable slave tasks with the larger rewards that they bring. Inevitably, a greater degree of self-betrayal is required for this to happen. Along the way, the societal manipulators help out , largely through religion, the law, the schools, the media, and through peer pressure to help achieve the desired objective.
Peer pressure is extremely important in the creation of conformity among slaves. With a group of 'individuals' who have been trained from the outset by their parents to conform, it is hardly surprising that they should repeat this pattern in their own society. They are just doing what they have been taught.
At a more basic level for the developing human animal, the child finds the natural expression of its animal nature rejected by the parents. This creates confusion and discomfort within this new person. After all, it is the genetic material of the parents going forward. When it finds itself being punished and rejected precisely for simply striving to continue the parents' genetic program, it is getting a double message. From within itself it feels that it is here to carry on the animal nature of what the parents are, but at the same time, from the outside, it learns that the most important thing is that it must not do is exactly that. Inevitably, it develops a negative sense of its own identity.
Furthermore, as it struggles to comply with the parents' demands in this regard in order to gain what it needs from them in order to survive and develop, it betrays its own internal agenda and joins the next generation of domesticated humans.
Slaves produce more slaves for the masters to use. Their self-betrayal and resultant lack of pride further empower the masters. Once the parents are broken in, it becomes relatively easy to continue the production of slaves from generation to generation. As more slaves are produced, those who are less suitable to slavery are more easily disposed of since the slave market becomes larger to select from. Those that remain are more and more amenable to caged life, can be controlled in larger numbers more easily than ever before, produce more for the masters, and expect less for themselves in terms of what is truly important in life, thus threaten the survival of the system less and less.
Having been selected and bred for caged life, all of their desires exist within the cage and their attempts to fulfill these desires provide the motivation for them to support and affirm caged life to a greater and greater extent. The bars get stronger and the walls get thicker.
We have come to a point that the concept of existence without the cage has become more frightening than the cage itself for these domesticated animals. They know that they would have great difficulty surviving without the protection that the cage brings. Having become more dead than alive, the restrictions of the cage do not seem so onerous any more. For many, for most, they know that they do not want to be wild animals and that they could never make the transition to becoming truly living creatures again. They are diseased and owe their very existences to the anti-life reality that the cage creates. They accept being diseased and they have lost contact with what it means to be alive.
It has taken ten thousand years of selective breeding to create these creatures and there are six billion of them today on this planet. Although they look like their Cro-Magnon ancestors and still share much of their genetic material, they are the products of a certain subgroup of these beings.
These ancestors would not be proud to see what had happened with their descendants. While they would be no doubt impressed with their technological creations, they would be saddened with the humanoids that they turned into. They would not understand how their genetic material could have done this to themselves. They would not understand how they could have abandoned life and all that makes it worth living to exist as caged animals.
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