In one of the great ironies of history, we find socialists and anarchists on the side of the new generation of slave-holders. The workers and wage-slaves of the world are being delivered into the hands of the overlords of the globalist future. These socialists and anarchists, obsessed with the slavery that was, sell us into the slavery that is and the worse slavery that is to come.
Slavery is an abomination. It is a gross violation of the dignity of the human person. It is no surprise, therefore, that Christians have been at the forefront of the fight against slavery throughout the ages. The ending of slavery in Europe had a great deal to do with the rise of Christianity, and the ending of the African slave trade was primarily the work of Christian abolitionists.
The force behind the African slave trade was not white supremacism, as critical race theorists claim, but human pride and greed, irrespective of skin colour, aided and abetted by technological “progress.” Black tribes enslaved neighbouring tribes and then sold them to the white slave-traders. Such wanton wickedness tramples on human dignity and is a stain on human history. “Generations have trod, have trod, have trod,” laments Gerard Manley Hopkins:
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell….
Thanks to Christian abolitionists, it is now illegal to buy and sell human persons. This Christian interventionism was truly revolutionary in its infusion of fundamental Christian principles into economic life. This must be stressed. The removal of slaves from the market was revolutionary; it was a restriction of free market forces in the interests of human freedom. Slavery, in this sense, is a thing of the past because of the revolutionary power of Christianity. Thanks be to God, literally!
The problem is that slavery comes in other guises.
If slavery is defined in the narrow sense of the ownership of one person by another, it can be said to have been abolished; if, however, it is defined as the absence of freedom, it is evident that we are living in an age of increasing slavery. We live in an age in which the rights of individual conscience, the rights of the family, and even the right to life have been lost or are being taken away. We live in an age in which government keeps getting bigger and bigger and further and further away from the people, an age in which local government is weakened and in which national or international government is strengthened. We live in an age in which the democratic process is being controlled by unelected plutocrats; the super-rich using the power they possess in Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Finance to manipulate the market in ideas, as well as the market in goods and services. We live in an age in which global corporations employ their financial power to pillage the resources of Africa, riding roughshod over the indigenous peoples of the continent whom they consider to be primitives for their failure to practice the sterile principles of the culture of death.
Powerless in the face of plutocratic and technological imperialism, the African people are as exploited today as they were by the plutocrats of the past. They are not owned but they are dispossessed of what they own. This is the slavery which is—and, truth be told, it doesn’t smell much better than the slavery that was.
And then there is the slavery that is to be.
There is little doubt that the global corporations, aided and abetted by technology, are tightening their grip on the world, blurring the distinction between economic and political power. Their allies include the Chinese Communist Party, which has the blood of tens of millions of its own civilians on its hands, and the “progressive” ascendancy in the United States and the European Union. These strange bedfellows will work to ensure that the much-vaunted Great Reset will move the world towards much more global integration. The global economy and global politics will be controlled by elites who are not democratically elected and who are beyond the control of any national government, answerable to nothing but their own self-interest, and pursuing that self-interest at the expense of the political and economic freedom of the increasingly powerless people of the world. Is this not a new generation of slave-holders, immeasurably more powerful than the slave-owners of the past?
And where do the socialists and anarchists stand in the face of the slavery that is and the slavery that is to come? In one of the great ironies of history, we find them on the side of the new generation of slave-holders. They do not oppose the globalist drive towards the free movement of capital and labour but, on the contrary, they oppose all anti-globalist efforts to protect local economies through restrictions on trace and immigration. They do not oppose the unholy and unhealthy alliance between global corporations and the Chinese Communist Party. Instead, like stormtroopers of globalism, they make war on the forces of localism and nationalism. They seek to cancel mathematics and classical music for being “systemically racist” but are silent in the face of the real systemic racism being carried out by global corporations on the people of Africa.
Considering the role of the socialists and anarchists as the stormtroopers of globalism, we might be pardoned for being puzzled by their alleged support for the poor and downtrodden. With “friends” like these, the workers and wage-slaves of the world are being delivered into the hands of the overlords of the globalist future. We should keep this in mind as these socialists and anarchists, obsessed with the slavery that was, sell us into the slavery that is and the worse slavery that is to come.
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And the tyranny of the global cabal which is ravaging Africa, is also penetrating America to destroy and dismantle the concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness into a servant of socialism. They eliminated the primary key defense we have when they managed to eliminate religion from the public school. Before they get any further It is time to mount a counter offensive to renew our Christian heritage.
The only logical outcome (according to Austrian economic theory) is that a government sponsored school will eliminate “competition”.
Mounting a “counter offensive” is doomed to fail. The power structure that is running the show is a loosely coupled cabal of sociopaths and psychopaths whose creativity and ruthlessness will never be matched head on.
What is necessary is a different approach, one that cannot be comprehended by the
“-opaths”.
First, always express our future through joy and optimism, without regard to whatever is the “common reason”. They are unable to understand such a response, nor respond to it, try as they may. (Side note: forwarding emails to one’s distribution list about the latest happenings, events or frustrations does not work. Neither does taunting nor arguing on fakebook.)
Second, rather than fighting or condemning the anarchists and millennials, engage them. Find common ground. (Not the hopelessly violent, radicalized agents, mind you. Even the, as I will cite later, the radicals may occasionally be turned. Right, Mr. Pearce? )
What is common ground? Examples:
– admit that unbridled capitalism tends toward undesirable outcomes (unconstrained monopolies, oligarchies, resentments, corruption, etc.). Without calling it “localism” or “distributing” explain the merits of borrowing elements of socialism, and how…
– …materialism is at the root of greed, corruption and centralization. This provides common ground to expound upon the virtues of freedom, self expression, and fulfillment for which every millennial is despairingly searching, yet has no roadmap to follow in order to achieve those goals.
– “defunding the police”. The intent, again, is to eliminate the corruption and unfairness of authority. Give a little ground (please, stay with me..) Our purpose here is to open a dialogue that will lead to understanding and truth, not accept the premise at anything other than a superficial level. In conceding that we should restructure policing and changing the funding (in a way that is compromizingly agreeable to them), I am able to invite them that in addition to “defund the police” to also suggest that we should “defund teachers’ unions”. Half the time, this ends the conversation. (Alas, there are a few hopeless causes.) Half the time it becomes engaging to new levels one would never think possible. But, in both cases I have planted a seed.
– We can even find common ground with the ”CHOP” community organizers in Seattle. Their beliefs, methods and goals are abhorrent, but common ground reveals, at their core, a fundamental desire of “distributism/localizism”. Imagine a discussion where we take a few of the “virtues of socialism” and combine them with a few of the virtues of a free market. I’m-Right-You’re-Wrong-ism will never open the door to dialogue. Common ground at least allows the chance to engage and educate.
The cycling of society is like a pendulum, swing left and right. Our inclination is to try and resist the swing in the direction we all can see it headed today, to change the direction of the pendulum to an opposite path. I propose that if we can swing WITH the pendulum for an ever so brief amount of time, we than have a good change of riding the pendulum back where it is destined to return. (It always swings back!)
And what wonderful ride it would be! The rush of gaining momentum when we’re leading the swing back to the right direction. That beats the hell out fighting and tugging and resisting the swing. And then we all get to ride together.
So… do what they don’t expect. Meet them with joy. Find areas to agree. Trying to use reason rarely works. So… Appeal to their arrogance.. Complement their good intentions. Work their emotions. Be patient slowly educating their ill-informed arguments. Each of those catches them off guard. (Side note: Personally, complementing them is the hardest part I have to overcome!)
Throw them some soft balls that they hit foul. Throw a curve ball that catches them off guard. Zip a fastball that they never see coming. Three strikes, and… now they are in the game! (ha ha. See? I gotcha.)
How do we reach a wider audience with this truth?
There is no such thing as a “wage slave”. To be paid in exchange for labour is a contract freely entered into and freely ended.