Tag Archive: war
While learning about history in school, I just knew there was something missing- I mean- it’s kind of obvious- all sorts of atrocities are mentioned, but there is never really adequate explanation as to why or how these things came to take place.
The way history is taught now, it kind of leaves you with the impression that some people just like to be oppressed- in fact, that the VAST MAJORITY of people seem to prefer to exist with just barely getting enough to survive living and working in poor conditions.
A little common sense goes a long way here- to realize that if you were being oppressed or abused, you want to do whatever you could to stop it- and the times in your life where you have been oppressed or abused are when there was nothing you could do about it- like if 4 guys beat you up in a back alley- you had no choice but to be beaten- so how our history is currently taught- the guys that beat you up would then go and tell everyone that you actually wanted to be beat up and it was your responsibility to stop it. Yeah- you can see how ridiculous this is.
Which brings me to my point- which is that our history has been taught from a perspective of justifying the abuse and oppression of the majority of the population, when we all know in common sense that no one would actually want to live that way. Yet we have trusted the ‘professionals’, the professors, and the textbooks, the media- however, in this system in which only a very few have the power, because they have the money, the schools, the media, the information that is taught and presented to people is all controlled, and is deliberately manipulated and distorted in favor of protecting the current system and those who profit from it.
However, it is possible to find out what really happened, from the perspective of the people, and how things have really got to be how they are now- why so many are oppressed and suffering. A book called “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn gives a really thorough and effective explanation of what actually happened in the history of the U.S., of the pivotal events that took place- I was totally shocked in the staggering difference between the actual perspectives that is shared in this book, it becomes abundantly obvious that what we are taught in schools is so obviously one-sided and on the side that favors those in power. I so highly recommend all to read this book- you will actually be interested to be learning about history.
Reading this book, I realized a major part of the reason why I hadn’t been interested to learn about history in the past, was that it never really made sense, because you could always tell, there was a lot left out that simply was not explained and thus not much made sense, and learning history was actually quite depressing- as it basically served to tell you what your place was, and that’s just the way things are, and if you have a problem with it it means you’re lazy.
You can get this book in audio format as well- but no matter which way you read it/hear it, I suggest that you do- so you can get some perspective on what really went on to get to where we are now- it will give you much more of a clearer perspective on what is going on today in this world even now- the very issues at hand today- labor unions, immigration, inequality, etc. And through this understanding, you empower yourself to be able to understand what is going on, and can begin to see what the solution is, which is for us to stand up and stop allowing this oppression to continue, that this is not the way things ‘just are’ or ‘must be’, but have been very deliberately made to be this way through the use of force- yet, we have quite a good opportunity to change this system now through the political process that’s been established, that’s currently utilized by those seeking to oppress the many to profit from their labor.
Therefore, I highly suggest to read this book “A People’s History of the United States”, so you can get a clear picture of our history and how the political system has ‘evolved’ and thus you’ll better understand how it can be utilized and changed. It is just like this with anything- you can’t really change the design of a car until you fully understand how the car works, what the parts are and what they do, etc.
“A People’s History of the United States” is a Must Read for anyone who is an activist and stands up for Equal Rights for All and a world without suffering.
Within this account of history it’s abundantly clear that we require a new system which is based on Equality for All- that that is the only real solution we have currently, to be able to stop the oppression and abuse taking place all over the world. So, in addition to reading this book, I suggest to investigate the Equal Money System as well- as it will be the key to finally putting an end to this abuse and exploitation that’s been going on for eons.
This event and how it was handled ‘makes sense’, so to speak, within the ‘story’ which we’ve all been playing out, like the ‘roles’ or ‘parts’ we’ve been playing in this jumbo collective ‘movie’ of humanity as ‘nations’, as our nations are like giant ‘personalities’ made up of all our ‘little’ personalities. And our histories (plural because each has their own his-story) are like our ‘stories’ that we look back on as what defines us. The fact that we would celebrate such a thing, shows how little we’ve changed at all, how we still haven’t learned from our history, how we still have not yet understood the duplicity within such an action.
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Throughout history, we have celebrated ‘victories’ and for all the celebrating fighting has never stopped, war has never stopped- so then what is actually being celebrated? Winning. The other side of winning is losing- within this polarity, there is no winning without someone losing. We know there is always this polarity, we learn this from sports when we’re growing up- the winner gets to feel superior and the loser inferior- and if you have had the experience of being the loser- you know that the winner do not look so cool from that angle- in fact you might want to do nasty things to him, but at the least, you see that he is not such a ‘winner’ as he thinks he is, because you see how his nature is actually spiteful, because he sees himself as ‘better’ than you- and there is nothing honorable within that, no being would want to be treated that way, or would consider that respectful. And in fact, many go to War as a reaction to that behavior, as a justification to kill another, and be happy about it.
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Thus we repeat our history over and over, because we have not changed our behavior. When you place yourself in the other shoes, and see what you look like from that angle- then we can realize who we really are, what we’re really doing, what is the actual affect of our behaviors. As long as we separate ourself from ‘others’- we are creating our own enemies, which is really stupid, because we are talking about war the actuality of which is atrocities that you would not want to experience.
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Not to mention that when you look at history, and follow the money, because money is used extensively within wars- you can see that wars are propagated by and for those who financially benefit from it- those with the money, control the media, those that control the media, control public opinion, all forms of emotional, logical, mental manipulation in various topics and various ways are used to engender the necessary mindsets to carry out, participate in, and support these wars.
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Celebrating this just feeds those installed mindsets, and literally planting the seeds for our future to still have wars. It’s like, we’re killing our children to come. By passing on the ‘sins of the fathers’ so to speak. That it’s come to a point where we saw it necessary to kill another, is unfortunate. And the killing has done nothing to prevent the situation from happening again- I’d say when it is a certainty that no human is grown in such a way that they become abusive and harm others- that’s what to celebrate. That will be Real victory.
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I’m currently taking a class on American History, and reading about what’s called ‘Reconstruction’, which is the name for a period that took place between 1865-1877, in which the Southern Confederate States were reunited with the Northern Union States after the Civil War and the legal abolition of slavery.
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A perspective that is given in my textbook, is that at that time, while it was becoming more normal and accepted in the North to work for wages, in the South this was seen as degrading, as to work ‘another’s’ land was seen as dependency, and working and owning your ‘own’ was seen as freedom. Therefore the freed ‘slaves’, were not all that excited to now be able to contract with the former slave owners. One South Carolina freedman responded to an offer of wage work, “I mean to own my own manhood, I’m going to own my own land.”
Quite fascinating to consider this when now across the whole country the vast majority of people are wage workers, and very few are landowners. Also, to see how we’ve formed this definition of what it means to be ‘free’, in terms of ‘ownership’, within the context of a system in which we don’t work together, and each is ‘out for himself’ and everyone has to have ‘their own’ because we don’t share, because we don’t trust each other, because we can’t in a system where each has to be ‘out for himself’. Lol, Catch-22 there, isn’t it.
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There was also friction around an issue where on some plantations, the ‘planters’ would tell the men that their wives and children couldn’t live with them unless they also worked in the fields.
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Quite fascinating when you consider that in many cases nowadays, the wife has had to seek employment so that the family can ‘make ends meet’ and the wages of the husband is simply not enough to support the family. And if the family can’t pay it’s bills, NONE of them get to live there- they lose their home and are Out On the Street.
We Sure have Come a Long Way, haven’t we?
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There were a lot of negative reactions to the efforts of the former slaves taking control of their own lives from those whites who held the belief that blacks were meant to be subordinate to them. In one case in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, after a dispute with some ‘freedmen’, the whites burned their cabins and hanged the inhabitants. Thousands of Blacks were murdered and beaten. Now, you can see how delusional it is for some to believe that others are less than they, when they will commit acts such as this- this kind of behavior is not acts of superiority, but in fact infeariority, totally hypocritical, and obviously unacceptable.
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Quite disillusioning to see who we have been and what we’ve accepted and allowed in the past, especially when so many act ‘patriotic’ and ‘proud’ of this country, when- when you look at the history, it is an absolute Disgrace, that we can learn from, to be Sure that this kind of Abuse Never Happen Again. Reconstruction shows us who we’ve been, it’s Time to Let the shit from the Past Go, so that we can begin to ‘Reconstruct’ our Nature, to that which is Supportive to All Life, and End this System of Debt Slavery- because Slavery hasn’t yet Ended, it’s actually increased.
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Time to Give ourselves the Opportunity to Live a Dignified Life Here with an Equal Money System.
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