“Knowledge makes a man unfit to
be a slave”
by Larry Pinkney, Republished
from The Black Commentator, May 24,
2012
The 21st Century Political
Plantations / Reservations Of The
United States Of Insanity
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to
be a slave."
-- Frederick Douglass
The single most potent and
effective form of slavery is mental.
It is this slavery that
suffocates the potential and the
aspirations of everyday Black,
White, Brown, Red and Yellow people
in the United States. It is
perpetuated by the most hypocritical
and violent corporate government on
the planet of Mother Earth -- that
of the de facto Empire of the
United States.
The power elite of this nation is
one, that under the obfuscated guise
of progress; thwarts, disfigures,
and subverts the very best in
humankind both here and abroad. It
is a manipulated and greedy form of
insanity that systemically keeps
ordinary people in a perpetual state
of political, social, and economic
slavery.
Institutional 'education' in this
nation is overwhelmingly nothing
more than a veneer of mythology and
half-truths constantly reinforced by
the lies, distortions, and omissions
by those who own and control the
corporate-stream 'news' media.
'Democracy' in this nation, in real
terms, means dictatorship by
the tiny corporate elite; embodied
in the slimy machinations of both
the Democrat and Republican parties.
The so-called election process,
particularly on the national level,
is a complete and shameless farce.
In reality, the majority of
people of all colors in the United
States are well trained Pavlovian
slaves, who have been systemically
ingrained to salivate and perform
self-destructive tricks at the
ringing of the euphemistic
corporate/military bells of endless
government and media propaganda.
Without fail, the every four year
corporate 'election' cycle rings the
bell, and the majority of mental
slaves retreat to their respective
Democrat and Republican party
mental/political plantations and
reservations; repeating yet again
another cyclical tour de force of
salivating insanity. The shame of it
all is that it does not have
to be this way.
The only way in which a slave can
free himself or herself is to first
recognize one's bondage. This
is what Rosa Luxemburg meant when
she said, "Those who do not move, do
not notice their chains...Freedom is
always and exclusively freedom for
the one who thinks
differently...Freedom is always the
freedom of dissenters." This is also
what Harriet Tubman meant when she
said, "I freed a thousand slaves - I
could have freed a thousand more
if only they knew that they were
slaves." To reiterate: The only way
in which a slave can free herself or
himself is to first recognize
one's bondage.
The fact of consciously used
eugenocidalist chemical brain
gelding policies in every country ..
1. Poisoning the air with
unfiltered dioxin and
xeno-estrogenous fuctory outputs.
2. Water with cancerous and mind
gelding fluoride.
3. Food with cancerous GMO
Frankentein food, Aspartame and
pesticides.
4. Vaccines with SV40 Cancer
viruses and mercury adjuvants..
The everyday ordinary people
of this nation and world are who we
must pay heed to, not
the so-called "leaders." The
everyday people are the leaders. The
others are usurpers and blood
suckers of the people.
It is this corrupt, hypocritical,
blood sucking, and demeaning
political system that continues to
make us salivate in this cycle of
insanity. We must first and foremost
free our minds of and from
this system. Then we can and will
make enormous collective leaps in
this, humanity's long and protracted
struggle, for economic, social, and
political parity. We must first get
off the plantation, or at the very
least, mentally divorce ourselves
from it.
This is our choice: To remain
slaves or to be free and regain our
humanity. Think about it. What will
your choice be?
Surely, we all know what is at
stake: It is our very humanity and
the nurturing and existence of our
Mother Earth. Free your minds and
regain your humanity.
Onward, then, my sisters and
brothers! Each one reach one. Each
one teach one. Onward, as a part of
humanity's collective struggle! We
can do this thing. We must do
this thing -- together.
Larry Pinkney is an editorial
board member & columnist with
THE BLACK COMMENTATOR,
www.BlackCommentator.com; a
former university instructor of
political science and
international relations; and a
veteran of the Black Panther
Party, and former (
more...)
Metaphysics & Philosophy Books Download
Plato (427-347 B.C.):
Old Greek Philosopher/Metaphysician, Student
and Friend of Socrates
“The price good men pay for
indifference to public affairs is to be
ruled by evil men. “
–
Aristotle (384-322 B.C):
Old Greek Philosopher/Metaphysician, Student
of Plato
“As in other departments of science,
so in politics, the compound should always
be resolved into the simple elements or
least parts of the whole. We must therefore
look at the elements of which the state is
composed, in order that we may see in what
the different kinds of rule differ from one
another, and whether any scientific result
can be attained about each one of them.”
–
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860):
German Philosopher/Metaphysician
“All truth passes through three
stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is
violently opposed, and third, it is accepted
as self-evident.”
–
G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716)::
German Philosopher/Metaphysician,
Mathematician
“It is a good thing to proceed in
order and to establish propositions
(principles). This is the way to gain ground
and to progress with certainty. … I hold
that the mark of a genuine idea is that its
possibility can be proved, either a priori
by conceiving its cause or reason, or a
posteriori when experience teaches us that
it is a fact in nature.”
–
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Prussian Enlightenment Philosopher
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence
from his self-incurred immaturity.
Immaturity
is the inability to use one’s own
understanding without the guidance of
another.
This immaturity is self-incurred if its
cause is not lack of understanding, but
lack of resolution and courage to use it
without the guidance of another. The
motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere
aude! Have courage to use your own
understanding!”
–
Nicolo Machiavelli (1460-1527):
Italian Philosopher/Metaphysician, Poet
“For the great majority of mankind
are satisfied with appearances, as though
they were realities, and are often more
influenced by the things that seem than by
those that are.”
–
Epictetus (55-135 A.D.):
Old Greek Philosopher/Metaphysician, Student
of Zeno
“For what is the end proposed in
reasoning? To establish true propositions,
to remove the false, to withhold assent from
those which are not plain.”
–
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831):
German philosopher/metaphysician
“The state of man’s mind, or the
elementary phase of mind which he so far
possesses, conforms precisely to the state
of the world as he so far views it.”
–
Voltaire (1794-1878 ):
French Philosopher/Metaphysician, Writer
“The Jewish nation dares to display
an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations,
and revolts against all masters; always
superstitious, always greedy for the
well-being enjoyed by others, always
barbarous – cringing in misfortune and
insolent in prosperity”
Tactic & Strategy
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1835):
Prussian Soldier, Military Historian,
Military Theorist
“The conqueror is always a lover of peace;
he would prefer to take over our country
unopposed.”
–
Sun Tzu (around the year zero):
Chinese Military Historian, Military
Theorist
“All warfare is based on deception.
Hence, when able to attack, we must seem
unable; when using our forces, we must seem
inactive; when we are near, we must make the
enemy believe we are far away; when far
away, we must make him believe we are near.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign
disorder, and crush him.”
History
Tacitus (55-150 a.d.):
Roman Historian
“In truth neither from the Samnites,
nor from the Carthaginians, nor from both
Spains, nor from all the nations of Gaul,
have we received more frequent checks and
alarms; nor even from the Parthians: for,
more vigorous and invincible is the liberty
of the Germans than the monarchy of the
Arsacides.”
–
John Beaty: American
Historian
“The author of The Iron Curtain Over
America has written, or collaborated on, a
dozen books. His texts have been used in
more than seven hundred colleges and
universities, and his historical novel,
Swords in the Dawn, published originally in
New York, had London and Australian
editions, and was adopted for state-wide use
in the public schools of Texas. His
education (M.A., University of Virginia;
Ph.D., Columbia University; post-graduate
study, University of Montpellier, France),
his travel in Europe and Asia, and his five
years with the Military Intelligence Service
in World War II rounded out the background
for the reading and research (1946-1951)
which resulted in The Iron Curtain Over
America.”
Anarchism and other alternative systems
Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876):
Russian Revolutionary, Anarchist Thinker
opposing Marx
“The people, unfortunately, are still
very ignorant, and are kept in ignorance by
the systematic efforts of all the
governments, who consider this ignorance,
not without good reason, as one of the
essential conditions of their own power.”
–
P.J. Proudhon (1809-1865):
French Philosopher/Metaphysician, Economist,
Anarchist Thinker opposing Marx
“I have made every effort to obtain
exact information, comparing doctrines,
replying to objections, continually
constructing equations and reductions from
arguments, and weighing thousands of
syllogisms in the scales of the most
rigorous logic. In this laborious work, I
have collected many interesting facts which
I shall share with my friends and the public
as soon as I have leisure. But I must say
that I recognized at once that we had never
understood the meaning of these words, so
common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity,
liberty; that concerning each of these
principles our ideas have been utterly
obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance
was the sole cause, both of the poverty that
devours us, and of all the calamities that
have ever afflicted the human race.”
Misc
George Orwell (1903-1950):
English Writer, Reporter
“As it is, the aeroplane is primarily
a thing for dropping bombs and the radio
primarily a thing for whipping up
nationalism. Even before the war there was
enormously less contact between the peoples
of the earth than there had been thirty
years earlier, and education was perverted,
history re-written and freedom of thought
suppressed to an extent undreamed of in
earlier ages. And there is no sign whatever
of these tendencies being reversed.”
–
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963):
English Writer
“A really efficient totalitarian
state would be one in which the all-powerful
executive of political bosses and their army
of managers control a population of slaves
who do not have to be coerced, because they
love their servitude. To make them love it
is the task assigned, in present-day
totalitarian states, to ministries of
propaganda, newspaper editors and
schoolteachers.”
–
Hervey Cleckley:
American Psychologist
“After many years of work in
psychiatry as a member of the staff in a
closed hospital devoted to the treatment of
mental disorders, and after many other years
in charge of the psychiatric service in a
general hospital, I believe that these
curious people referred to as sociopaths or
psychopaths, in the vernacular of the ward
and the staff room, offer a field of study
in personality disorder more baffling and
more fascinating than any other.”
–
“In researching Jewish history, the
investigator discovers a wide variance of
written material. Work by authors expressly
critical of Jews (and they include a
surprisingly number of Jewish commentators,
mostly “apostates” of one kind or another)
is invariably labeled by today’s political
conventions to be “anti-Semitic” in nature.
There is a large body of such material
extending throughout history, written by
critics wherever Jews were to be found.”
–
Hans F.K. Günther (1891-1968):
German Scientist with focus on
races
“We find, in general, the most
confused notions as to how the European
peoples are composed of various races. We
often hear, for example, a ‘white race’ or a
‘Caucasian race’ spoken of, to which the
Europeans are said to belong. But probably,
were he asked, no one could tell us what its
bodily characteristics are. It is, or should
be, quite clear that a ‘race’ must be
embodied in a group of human beings each of
whom presents the same physical and mental
picture. Physical and mental differences,
however, are very great, not only within
Europe (often called the home of the ‘white’
or ‘Caucasian’ race) and within each of the
countries in it, but even within some small
district in one of the latter. There is,
therefore, no ‘German race,’ or ‘Russian
race,’ or ‘Spanish race.’ The terms ‘nation’
and ‘race’ must be kept apart.”
Note
Keep in mind that the truly educated are
as superior to the uneducated as the living
are to the death. Or even more I would say
since our current knowledge does not really
allow us to judge about the relation between
the state we call “living” and the state we
call “death” while it is certain that the
educated are indeed superior to the
uneducated. Nam Et Ipsa Scientia Potestas
Est; knowledge is power, and not just any
power, it’s a power they can’t just simply
take away from you.
Our brain is the greatest present
nature/the god’s (depending on your
believes) has/have given to us. As far as
our current knowledge goes, we are second to
none in points of intelligence. I like the
Greek philosopher Epictetus a lot, he viewed
himself even equal to the god’s when it came
to intelligence. “For as to intelligence
you are not inferior to the gods nor less;
for the magnitude of intelligence is not
measured by length nor yet by height, but by
thoughts.”
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Feed your Mind « Meta-Research said this on June 22, 2007 at 10:49 am |
Most people need just a little guidance to find their own way, their own place in life. Guinding people from the darkness of ignorance to the light of truth and knowledge is what is the true job of a philosopher/metaphysiker after all.
Plato and Epictetus are among the greatest guides to true understanding that ever walked the face of the earth.
Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment? « Meta-Research said this on July 30, 2007 at 7:24 pm |
but i hadnt really imagined how people have actually been brainwashed. i dont watch tv, not even the radio anymore. i will listen to an ipod, but the frequencies of tvs n radios invades my thoughts, i can feel it re-routing synapses lol.
anyways, godbless, and anyone who understands these great words is truly blessed, for he holds his own mind =)