Modern Slavery -II

     * I wont explain here more about what is meaning of these rights, even I need to do that in another place. What is obvious, the word “slavery” has one antonym, which is “freedom”. Slaves are opposite of free souls. Sadly in today societies, very big part of slaves are claimed as “trapped unwillingly” in labor, work, enforced, and even bigger part of humans are slaves “willingly”. What I mean by that?

       * Imagine situation of woman prostitute, she wants to escape and claimed to be “slave” – for example she was kidnapped and forced to do that. In its root slavery is humiliation of the human soul and mind. And root of this humiliation is lack of freedom, or lack of ability to choose between different things. Now I want to ask you, are there women, who are prostitutes “willingly” even if it`s illegal? And what is their motive for choosing this “profession” or action, above another? I want to say here clearly – all of prostitutes, or who admit they are not enslaved and “free” in their choice – are actually slaves. That’s why – a very big part of them (here we speak about prostitutes, but there are many other examples) – are “forced” to choose this way not by people, but by circumstances in their lives –poverty, left without property, hardly surviving, or by their own mind (lack of positive feeling in their environment, hard childhood…). This is by all means not human freedom. These women would willingly give up their work of prostitutes, by first possible chance to do something different. Another big part of them are “willingly” choosing this profession, why? If woman have many choices, she comes from a wealthy family, but still he went on the way to be “prostitute”, or what we may call historically “concubine” (were slaves), in the harems of Sultans (were slaves women), “mistress” (the word itself even can mean “master woman”, Lady or beloved!). So why they choose this way? The things in this case are reversed. Women – “mistresses” are not in a trap or enslaved forcefully from anyone, but just by themselves, by their own mind. They choose to be so, having the understanding that this is the easiest way to indulge in comfortable wealthy life, without many efforts. They do not consider any psychological effect or motive, which later returns to them. These women are trapped in horrible mischief by themselves. They are slaves too, but with higher status – social slaves.

III. I took long time to explain about these kind of “willing” slaves, because there are amazingly many such people on earth. People who choose work, labor, condition, suffer humiliation from other, “willingly” only because they don’t have another choice. People who are silent about their sexual abuses, become faceless, have daily turmoil, psychological attacks, only because of lack of another choice? Do they exist now? How many are they on the planet? You can answer these questions, I leave them open.

     * The slavery is wide spread on the planet, it is even increasing each year. The main reason for this spread of slavery are: 1. misunderstanding of personal freedom 2. misunderstanding of human values 3. mis conception of what is “purity”, 3. misunderstanding of what is wealth and how to receive it, 4. lack of self-confidence and self-love 5. accepting all social norms as “right and above all”, 6. feeling economically repressed, 7. living in poor conditions and social “stigma” 8. Raising value of money, means and comfort as the highest human (social) values.

In order to realize the depth of slavery phenomena in society, we need to ask questions, we need to search the truth. How many people love what they work and feel it as their mission? How many are slaves of social conditions and need for finances? in another side –how many people are "slaves” of their ambitions for wealth, comfort, easy life, power, influence? How many are slaves of social norms and "values”, of social ideas for “successful” and unsuccessful person? How many are slaves of ideas that if you don’t have particular things like good carrier, money, car, property and children…you are unsuccessful or failed? These are the so called “ideological slaves”. They are everywhere, because they like to follow the social model and scheme about value of life. 

     One very good example is – most people are passionate about having children, not because they understand the value of a child, but mostly because they have inside their minds prints of socially approved models and values. “to have a child” is valuable – for society –but is it for me? And what about the child? That’s how many social imbalances and injustice happen. We don’t look for personal approve of our good qualities and abilities (from our Self and people we think as special), we want approval from the social net, the faceless grey society, with their values and stigma. We don’t want to return to ourselves and search inside our hearts, we are afraid of closer observation of our treats and qualities.

So I want to say here – the first person you need to be accepted, approved and loved is your Self. No anyone else. For that you need to have not social position or money, or power. You need connection with your Higher self. 

[ nina Lea-nura * ]

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Modern Slavery -I

   *  I start writing on the topic of slavery after it has been in my mind since quite long time. I want to point out, I`m not going to make research or any social addition about the problem of slavery. My article is about a very wide perception on what is “slavery” in the modern society, and not limited to what commonly people understand behind this word.

I. In order to distinguish my general concept on the topic and the usual usage of term slavery worldwide, I`ll start from the well known idea.

What people understand behind the term “slavery” today?

     * There are surely many forms of slavery in worldwide. Researches in this field reveal around 21. million people enslaved globally, from them 26% are children (sometimes bellow 16), 22% are estimated to be forced sex slaves, mostly women, 78% are forced in manual labor slavery (such as farming, mining, ranching, maids, dish-washing, gardening..) Fields for the slaves to be trapped in labor and turmoil are many.

In this quite narrow perspective of slavery, we can obviously condemn it as illegal, out of the low and criminal action. Here I wont go into more details about social side of the problem. More interesting for me is psychological side - who is claimed as a “slave”? Slave is a person, who is forced and trapped in a labor, work and actions, on which he did not agree willingly. This is the way society understands the term. Just here we have to be aware –there are various combinations of conditions, psychological motives, fear, economic repressions…to make one person a slave. In my opinion he can be slave even if he doesn’t feel one. For example children in early age cant realize or comprehend the “good” or bad consequences of many actions. They have feelings, but not developed mind and ability to analyze things they see. They assume something made or given by elder people –specially their parents or custodians – is already “the right thing” without arguments. They cant be aware fully on their situation of trapped unwillingly, as they accept it as existing fact. They are most vulnerable group, exactly for psychological reasons. The second most vulnerable group are women and girls. Many times the so called “developing” societies – cant distinguish well between “woman” and “a child girl”. Moreover some undeveloped cultures and societies (as in Afghanistan, Iraq) have the idea that the girl becomes “woman” just after her first menstruation. These girls- women then can be exploited and used in absolutely criminal and dirty ways, as much elder men could marry them.

There are statistically high percentage of prostitute women in the world, but we even cant be sure how many of them are children (under 18). And how many women actually do that “willingly”? These are questions seems modern society is not so interested to answer.

     II. I want to concentrate now on my own point about slavery. What I understand slavery to be is much wider, various, with multiple faces. We cant even overlook this problem, but before that we need to open eyes for the truth.

Slavery is phenomenon in societies and world, that exists historically until now. As I said, slavery is on the first place “psychological” phenomenon, this is the basis. Then it appears as physical. Slaves are not only people who we imagine to be trapped in a hard physical labor.

     * I`ll make here maybe a shocking statement, but I want to be clear about the facts: Bigger percent of the worlds population are “slaves” in reality, and not free people.

    To be sure about that, think deeply on what is called slavery. I stated, that not all people even are able to realize their position of slaves – specially the children. There are also many people who don’t think themselves as “slaves” but they are such. There are people too, who want to do something (labor, work, that are claimed as “enslaving” in too many cases), by their willing. So are these people “slaves”?

 I`ll observe some particular cases here. First of all, I have to point out, there can be multiple reasons for person to be slave: 1. economic instability, poverty 2. psychological illness, 3. inability to escape from a situation 4. any kind of discrimination on race, gender, group. People who use others in such way, take advantage from their status of vulnerable group in any kind. If they are women, miserable, needing finances for their families, needing to survive, migrants, children…So the slaves are used on the first place psychologically. They put themselves in such situation, usually due to lack of other choices. In this way they are trapped unwillingly.

This enslavement is claimed as criminal action and out of the low, exactly because of peoples “inner reaction” or unwillingness. Slaves want to take any possible chance to run away. They can be paid little, can be abused physically and mistreated. Slavery is abusing the main human rights, known since century of Enlightenment: freedom, equality, labor and working rights. 

[ nina Lea-nura * ]

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