Slavery

My education should have come free of charge, since I was taught by Jesuits. Even if Fordham is technically a private university that uses its funding as “alms” to support the priests, it is still against the constitutions of St. Ignatius of Loyola for Jesuits to take money in exchange for tutelage.

But then again, were they really Jesuits?

Alas, I am now a slave to the state and the banksters. Thank God I’m also a slave to Christ.

1 Corinthians chapter vii: “Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called. Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

“You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.”

You’re only truly free as a slave to Christ. Matthew chapter xi: “Take up My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest in your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”

Theologically speaking, the human will loses some freedom every time it sins, because in giving way to the passions it becomes mastered by them. So it really only is in keeping God’s commandments and avoiding sin that one can be free in the proper sense.

One is either a slave to Christ or a slave to sin and the devil. The common idea that there is nothing worse than slavery becomes itself an unwilling slavery to Satan, if followed to its conclusion, because it follows Satan in his rebellion.

That’s precisely what sentiment unites hard anarcho-capitalists with communists, namely the hatred of servitude. Both ideologies are born from this one sentiment.

However, as each internalizes their mutual absolute opposition, they must arrive at a compromise, namely, to accept a certain servitude, agreeing to call it freedom on the condition that most of their desires can be satisfied.

Basically this is secular liberal democracy, that thing viewed by our establishment as the final answer to everything.

Consider for example freedom of worship. You are free to practice whatever religion you like. And by that is meant, you are free to practice whatever religion you like, so long as it isn’t a radical religion. And by radical religion is meant, whatever the majority considers radical. And by whatever the majority considers radical is meant, what all have been told  is so by a public moral authority. For whatever a public moral authority says is so, the majority will accept.

This offends libertarians, because it is not an absolute freedom and comes down from an authority(1). But most libertarians will bear with it as long as it doesn’t personally affect them. Likewise it offends communists, because it allows some religion to exist(2). But they will bear with it, because some control over the opiate is much better than none.

Besides, we have always been at war with Eastasia, and the proles have been terrified and desperate for the protective guidance of Big Brother for longer than anyone living can remember. Who has time to worry about such ivory tower notions as the afterlife and God? The salient reality of the life into which all are thrown is far too sensible. You either want to be a part of history-in-the-making or you don’t; that will determine your place on the political chess board.

Never mind that they are all shadows projected onto the wall of the cave. The Masons, the communists, the Islamic State, Russia, the Novus Ordo, all of them…

You are a slave. It is impossible to escape your slavery. However, you have the ability to choose your master.

Choose wisely.

1. For "libertarians," read "Protestants."

2. For "communists," read "Muslims." For "some religion," read "some religion other than Mohammedanism."