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Despite all this scholarly work, each generation—from W.E.B. Du Bois to Robin Blackburn, from Eric Williams to Walter Johnson—seems condemned to have to prove the obvious anew: Slavery created the modern world, and the modern world’s divisions (both abstract and concrete) are the product of slavery.
Slavery is both the thing that can’t be transcended but also what can never be remembered. That Catch-22—can’t forget, can’t remember—is the motor contradiction of public discourse, from exalted discussions of American Exceptionalism to the everyday idiocy found on cable, in its coverage, for example, of Baltimore and Ferguson.
As the above link demonstrates...there has been a tremendous amount of scholarship on the causal relationships between African slavery (and accompanying genocide) and the progress of Europeans leading to the current dominance of that murderously corrupt group in today's world....
(Not that any group isn't historically, currently or prospectively murderous & corrupt....but today we examine Babylon corruption & mass murder)
Of course scholarship on the very intimate connections between Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams and many others is NOT given much exposure in The Matrix....It's BURIED For some though this stuff was required reading from HS years..even as we would watch and deconstruct Babylon TV programming 
So unfortunately we have to dig deep to find the documented truth.... and since only a few read and even fewer are curious about such subjects...as a group we remain ignorant. The latest movie, TV show, inane music or Babylon consumer trinket.... command most people's attention in the use of their "spare time"
Europeans don't like exposure of their true history of genocide, oppression & mass thievery. This nibbles away at the perception they wish to create of being "democratic" "fair" "high moral values" and "progressive". Yes they can be all these things....but only as long as there is some material benefit....TO THEM
When it suits Babylon's interest ...their genocidal and oppressive tendencies will return in a jiffy. Then their media will try to hoodwink people with yet more lies & propaganda
But the Matrix-Resistant folks don't fall for those traps...so easily
Slavery is both the thing that can’t be transcended but also what can never be remembered. That Catch-22—can’t forget, can’t remember—is the motor contradiction of public discourse, from exalted discussions of American Exceptionalism to the everyday idiocy found on cable, in its coverage, for example, of Baltimore and Ferguson.
As the above link demonstrates...there has been a tremendous amount of scholarship on the causal relationships between African slavery (and accompanying genocide) and the progress of Europeans leading to the current dominance of that murderously corrupt group in today's world....
(Not that any group isn't historically, currently or prospectively murderous & corrupt....but today we examine Babylon corruption & mass murder)
Of course scholarship on the very intimate connections between Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams and many others is NOT given much exposure in The Matrix....It's BURIED
For some though this stuff was required reading from HS years..even as we would watch and deconstruct Babylon TV programming So unfortunately we have to dig deep to find the documented truth.... and since only a few read and even fewer are curious about such subjects...as a group we remain ignorant. The latest movie, TV show, inane music or Babylon consumer trinket.... command most people's attention in the use of their "spare time"
Europeans don't like exposure of their true history of genocide, oppression & mass thievery. This nibbles away at the perception they wish to create of being "democratic" "fair" "high moral values" and "progressive". Yes they can be all these things....but only as long as there is some material benefit....TO THEM
When it suits Babylon's interest ...their genocidal and oppressive tendencies will return in a jiffy. Then their media will try to hoodwink people with yet more lies & propaganda
But the Matrix-Resistant folks don't fall for those traps...so easily
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