08-20-2011, 05:10 PM
There was an episode of "Kino no Tabi" (a wonderful light novel series published in Japanese that later on got turned into a 13-pieced anime and got some OVA-s also) where Kino visits a town where people have pretty much figured all out and all the works are done via robots. Yet, for some weird reason, not everything was happy after that, and people found themselves longing for work - and they made working 8-10 hours a day a neccessity again, even if the robotic "slave-like" work of humans were LITERALLY worthless. Just because too much freedom becomes boring after a point.
Anyway. I have met people (and my grandmother is one of them) who will subdue themselves and help others without getting anything in return - and I think that they are wonderful souls, and anyone who is hurting them is in a huge surprise and backlash in the long run (whenever that comes, even if it is the next life, or the one after that.). I think that in this density, experiencing the state of "being a slave" is a primary catalyst. Because if you have no unfair obligations to do, you cant really fly within your mind. In Hungary, pretty much our whole 1900-1950 writer scene was based upon near-starving, alcoholic people who were not able to get into a money-comfort zone, and THAT inspired them into writing such beautiful novels and poems.
I do not agree with the slavery at all. But I do recognize its value for both side: the slavers will have to face what they are/were doing, and the slaves are allowing themselves to shine, even under such artificially created limitations.
Anyway. I have met people (and my grandmother is one of them) who will subdue themselves and help others without getting anything in return - and I think that they are wonderful souls, and anyone who is hurting them is in a huge surprise and backlash in the long run (whenever that comes, even if it is the next life, or the one after that.). I think that in this density, experiencing the state of "being a slave" is a primary catalyst. Because if you have no unfair obligations to do, you cant really fly within your mind. In Hungary, pretty much our whole 1900-1950 writer scene was based upon near-starving, alcoholic people who were not able to get into a money-comfort zone, and THAT inspired them into writing such beautiful novels and poems.
I do not agree with the slavery at all. But I do recognize its value for both side: the slavers will have to face what they are/were doing, and the slaves are allowing themselves to shine, even under such artificially created limitations.