Showgirls or Captive gals playing chess.
This between acts at the "Latin Quarter" in 1958.
Future historians will view this as an image of Slaves.
Captive 20th century wage, and sex slaves.
Future texts will say,...
"Unlike the slaves of the 19th century.
Slaves in the 20th, and 21st were owned by corporations.
Who unlike the earlier masters did not feed or house them.
Rather they paid them a small wage. This which kept them just above starvation roughly housed, and clothed."
"This form of Slavery lasted well into the 22nd century."
"Valued Slaves were paid a larger wage. This gave them the illusion of freedom. Such amused their owners."
Exactly. We’ve talked before about how we wouldn’t like the ancient world because of slavery and other brutal facts of life back then, but I’m not sure our world is so superior.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, you can make a good case that the US has more black slaves now than it did in the antebellum South. We don’t call them slaves, we call them prisoners; but people who work for 14 cents an hour to benefit private prison owners, and who while incarcerated cannot really be said to own themselves - what are they? Early colonial indentured servitude was probably less onerous.
In Southern Asia debt slavery is a reality, and is passed on from one generation to the next. Congo has never recovered from breathtakingly vicious violations by Belgian masters, and even now Congolese people are being ruthlessly exploited - and murdered - at the behest of assorted commercial interests.
To bring it back to the United States, we now have cases of decisions by judges that amount to debtor’s prison; and so on...
The events of the last decade have caused me to lean toward socialism. The rule by rich people called capitalism has proven itself to be every bit as ugly as we ever suspected. The Atlantic slave trade was a capitalist enterprise. Why would the same economic system prove more benign now than it was then?
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Most of the thinkers worth their salt over the past fifty years or so have been anarchists.
ReplyDeleteThis includes one giant you have mentioned, Z, Buckminster Fuller. Hakim Bey is yet another who comes immediately to mind. There are a host of other giants, many of whom were friends of Fullers.
My thoughts and prayers are with Zeus. Here he is at Christies Auction House in an artwork titled "L'apothéose de Ganymède":
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Fine work M. Klossowski! Zeus is an inspiring theme.
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Z,
Deleteis this Henry Mackay at the instagram site you listed the URL for, John Henry Mackay? One of my heroes! A great anarchist. Hubert Kennedy has translated some of his work. Yet another hero! Talk about inspiring themes!!!
Of course! That’s the whole idea.
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