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Economy of Slavery
Q-What drove the fight for freedom in 1863?
A-People.
Why?
The quest for freedom is an built-in part of our nature.
Q-What drove the fight for keeping people in bondage?
A-Money.
No need to ask how greed can influence human behavior.
Why is this relevant to the people who view this website?
Slavery is still alive folks. However, it is cunningly disguised today. We do not choose to enslave people based solely on the color of their skin. The criteria has changed. Instead of calling people slaves, we call them "vegetables", "clients", "consumers", and "inmates."
Like the slavery of old, people are unhappy. They want freedom from the oppression. Who will help to free the slaves? Certainly not the people whose economy runs on slave labor. If we continue to permit the slave owners to run their business, they will continue to keep people locked behind misperceptions and negative labels. Why?
MONEY!
The economy of slavery is booming. People are branded with labels by the institutions we have created in our society to protect us from every kind of real, perceived and imaginary harm. After the appropriate label is applied, we can lock them away behind the walls of whichever category of slave institution we can fit them in.
Sometimes the institution of slavery offers to protect the people from themselves. Sometimes, the institution offers to aid the person in their quest for independence. Other times, the institution offers to protect the rest of society from the individual who is locked away.
In every case, the person who is bound to an institution is the primary constituent in the economy of the business that holds them. And that one factor limits the freedom fighters from breaking the chains of bondage.
TBI, Brain Injury, Cognitive Deficits.
The institutions that bind people who experience neurological damage are places that we call nursing homes, jails and prisons. The people who become 'clients', 'residents' and inmates are oftentimes at a disadvantage because of cognitive impairment.
(more to come)
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Revised: August 30, 2005 08:28 PM.