I am not about stifling information.

My time on this planet, in this existence, began in 1966. I have studied the idea of slavery from many different points of view. Of course, I was first exposed to the notion or idea from the government school system along with the pop-culture device known as television. Yes, I do see it with regularity. I am not about stifling information.

I have known slaves to the needle; either tattoos or junk. I have known slaves to the bottle. Slaves to tobacco. Slaves to social disorder. But the one that frightens me more than any other is the slave to money.

Are you a slave to money? Do you have extraordinary debt? Are you enticed to consolidate your slavery to only one master payment plan? Are you free? Are you? Free from what? Are you free from a seven year car loan? Are you free from a thirty year mortgage that has a hidden balloon payment that can crush your security and leave you and your loved ones scrambling to find a two room apartment due to your credit score? Credit, now there is a scary thing.

Do you have all your student loans paid off? Are you able to save anything from your earnings? Are you putting your faith in an investment firm of some sort that could blow up at any time? Have you done a reverse mortgage? Are you free? Free from the modern-day slavery also known as debt?

The thing is, debt has turned our society into absolute slavery. To be up to your neck in debt if you lose your source of income, how long do you think you will survive? Will your standard of living be affected right away? Or are you in the position to be free from debt?

Once one recognizes that they are a slave, the anger sets in. They speak with others suffering the same oppression. Then, at some point, the uprising against the master of the slave starts to be discussed. The uprising starts once the slave understands that they are enslaved by someone else.

Throughout history, the story is the same. Slaves rise up against their master and rebel and take over. When are the enslaved of the current society going to wake up and understand that they are slaves to the all mighty dollar? That they will not be free due to their never-ending cycle of debt or blind faith in some investment firm? The firm is making money off you, if you were not aware. I seriously doubt that anyone reading this did not know that; I am just ranting. Ranting so that maybe another person can be awakened to the fact that massive debt is nothing more than slavery. What if? What if the slaves stopped complying with the demands? What if we rose up against the lenders and said, “Enough!”?

Chris…

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