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Hypocrisy is a minor flaw swamped in the wake of pure hate.

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Left-Right-Left… We all know “left” and “right” are not colors.  This does not stop some people from painting everything in their lives, beliefs, statues, religion, and friends as left or right. Tiring, boring, and simplistic, but there it is. 

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We are all slaves – but to what?

The only old form of slavery absent in the US anyway is human ownership.   Other than that, we have bunches of new ones, many being self-slavery, together with the retinue of all the old ones. 

  • Topping today’s list for tots of all ages are cell phones and video games. Withdrawal is experienced if their device is removed even for a short period.
  • Another new category is the blogger, through which the writer communicates with unknown readers.  Detached friendship?  
  • Television slaves, junkies, or bingers, come in types such as news, shopping, sitcoms, old re-runs, and sports.


Many are slaves to fashion, to makeup*, to working out, to gambling, to alcohol and other drugs.  Some are slaves to the destruction of the infidel, whether political, religious or competitor. Others are slaves to their politics, religion or business.

Doing what you like and only like, such as work, is its own type of self-slavery.  Slavery to money is old; slavery to food, to mediocrity, to subsistence, and to underachievement are just as old. All are also slaveries of self.  Phobias are among other slavery types, though often regarded as mental conditions.

Overall, one may find it easier to count those who are not enslaved.

*Difficult to believe but makeup has been used in large quantities since antiquity.

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