The vast intelligence of the human race cannot
be denied as evidenced by the richness of history
that instructs the present as humankind explored
and tamed the environment to suit the needs of
people who exploited what nature offered and in
the process made astounding discoveries all of which
built on one another to produce a technological
marvel of servicing human interests. But not
without some massive missteps on the way to
success. The brilliant minds thousands of year ago
who visualized the universe, of the building blocks
of all matter, who spoke of atoms even while they
worshipped a multitude of gods also believed in
the incontrovertible reality of free men and slaves.
That slaves were ordained by birth to be just that
puzzling in its certainty and accepted even by the
philosophers among them. Inexplicable reasoning
that more recent times dispensed with in the stark
assumption that the socially and technologically
advanced were superior, all others subparhumanity
to be used and abused, taken hostage to the ambitions
of development and wealth derived from slave hand-
labour. Just ask: had the mechanization of labour
through the industrial revolution not occurred would
civilized nations have decided to abolish slavery?
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