Liberty
Slavery Freedom and Knowledge
Revolutions roam throughout societies, predominantly
battling oppression and corruption. The people rise up to overthrow the tyrant.
Corrupt Monopolies are common to all the major
revolutions. The French Revolution where the aristocracy kept the majority in
poverty while living frivolous lifestyles off the backs of the people. La
Guillotine cut short the tyranny of the French Aristocracy. In America, the
imposition of the Stamp Act, followed by the Townsend Act, sought to impose
taxes on the colonists. In Boston when the British Crown sent troops to
threaten the colonists into submission, a riot ensued, five civilians were
killed. When the British sent troops to confiscate weapons from the colonists,
the people rose up and attacked the British troops and the War of Independence
started. Were it not for French support, the colonists most likely would not
have stood up to the British forces and there might be no U.S.A. today.
In Russia, like France, the Aristocrats were violently
ousted by the people they oppressed. The common underlying factor in all these
revolutions was the existence of a corrupt monopoly.
Monopolistic control of access to land is what kept the people in
abject subservience. A form of Agrarian Slavery. Landowners enslaved peasants
by forcing them to work the
landowners fields for food to survive.
The industrial revolution however brought about a means for people
to gain knowledge in skills that freed them from the cycle of Agrarian Slavery.
Farm machinery provided increased efficiency, raising agricultural output and
the overall standards of society rose. Everyone was better off, including
the would be tyrants.
People properly express
concern with respect to maintaining separation between church and State.
Throughout history we have repeatedly seen underlying corruption in the
church ganging up with State to form the most evil of empires. There
should however, be a greater concern for separation of school and State
since the ratio is one hour per week for church verses eight or more
hours per day for school.
Knowledge
and the Future of Free
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