lucash.dev on Nostr: During a certain phase in the development of civilization, more than a thousand years ...
During a certain phase in the development of civilization, more than a thousand years ago, the only scalable form of capital accumulation was *slavery*.
Those who didn’t become slave masters often ended up being enslaved themselves. Preserving your freedom and that of your family often was synonymous with destroying the freedom of others and oppressing them.
That was a dark time in History. Yet the collapse of that system is often depicted as a cataclysm and a descent into darkness.
It’s a bit ironic that during the “Dark” Medieval times Europe almost ceased all slavery — and around the time of “Enlightenment” Europeans were once more practicing slavery at a massive scale.
What sort of time are we living now?
Where in the endless turn of the Wheel of Fortune is Mankind right now?
Are we moving up or down?
What fate waits our children — even deeper darkness or the breaking of a new dawn?
Those who didn’t become slave masters often ended up being enslaved themselves. Preserving your freedom and that of your family often was synonymous with destroying the freedom of others and oppressing them.
That was a dark time in History. Yet the collapse of that system is often depicted as a cataclysm and a descent into darkness.
It’s a bit ironic that during the “Dark” Medieval times Europe almost ceased all slavery — and around the time of “Enlightenment” Europeans were once more practicing slavery at a massive scale.
What sort of time are we living now?
Where in the endless turn of the Wheel of Fortune is Mankind right now?
Are we moving up or down?
What fate waits our children — even deeper darkness or the breaking of a new dawn?