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Etiqueta: Slavery

  • 250 Years of a Great Fiction

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    In December 1773, colonists threw a shipment of tea from a British ship into Boston Harbor. This marked the beginning of the Tea Party and the myth of the American Revolution—a story that children and young people will study in school and that older people will repeat on Fox News. The attack was carried out…

  • II. Prehistory: The Psychological Framework

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    From Flies in the Spiderweb: History of the Commercialization of Existence—and Its Means, by Jorge Majfud A neurology of propaganda Caveman strengths; cybernetic weaknesses (16 neural fossils) The central idea of this chapter could be summarized as follows: what helped us survive as a species for thousands of years has become our greatest weakness. These ancestral…

  • Education for a more efficient slavery

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    The author reflects on the historical appreciation of education within his family, contrasting past values with today’s challenges. He critiques contemporary attacks on liberal education, highlighting the ongoing struggle between ideologies. Influencers and privatization threaten public institutions, while utilitarian views dismiss the value of humanities, echoing historical attitudes toward education and freedom.

  • Freedom of speech ends where true power begins

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    On January 1, 1831, The Liberator, the country’s first abolitionist newspaper and, later, a defender of women’s suffrage, appeared in Massachusetts. At that time, Georgia slavers offered a reward of $5,000 (more than $160,000 in 2024 value) for the capture of its founder, William Lloyd Garrison. Naturally, this is how power reacts to freedom and…

  • The dark side of chocolate

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    CNN’s Richard Quest talks to filmmaker U. Roberto Romano, whose documentary «The Dark Side of Chocolate» investigates child labor and cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast. Read a statement from the Global Chocolate and Cocoa Industry | From the International Cocoa Initiative But before you bite into a chocolate bar or take a sip of…

  • Violence of the Master, Violence of the Slave

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    Violencia del amo, violencia del esclavo (English) Violence of the Master, Violence of the Slave Jorge Majfud For some reason, the phrase “violence begets violence” was popularized the world over at the same time that its implicit meaning was kept restricted to the violence of the oppressed.  That is to say, the master’s violence over…