Enslavement is the Norm

Schools often cite the events that lead to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. The day is believed to be a standing pillar holding the beacon of hope for a humanist modern world, when humans of all color, became free men.

But "Free men"? Does such a really exist?

In a limited mind, shaped by Western norms, Not so much. We are all told that slavery was long abolished and it is a reprehensible act to own another human being. Even the Long powerful supporters of such norms like the LDS Church, the Southern Baptists, etc all seem to have grown out of the idea that slavery should ever be tolerated.
But isnt it ironic that a society like the one of today that is so against a belief is condoning and promoting it?

Oh? You thought I said that black folks are still owned by White Europeans?
If that's what you thought, you arent completely wrong.

But not to worry. No one is getting whipped or is getting hanged for the slightest offenses, at least not directly.
Evidence suggests that, the only thing that works better than canes and whips and rectangularly cut pieces of paper with numbers on them. It acts the mechanism of taking a fish out of the sea and keep it out for a while, starving and parching it.
The scars of colonialism remains vivid in many nations. The wealth gap between the guilty and the victim nations were relatively low, but today, that gap is engorging itself with more swiftness.
The Richer nations, who suck out resources from these poorer nations give little of that share to those nations, and just to provide shelters to their fellow loved ones, they are shoved into mines and other places to work for longer hours.
Forget kids having a pen and a paper, they are sent along with their fathers to sweat and learn the trade out of the fear of death, due to starvation.

What has changed since 1862?

And the trend is globally present. Take India as an example, where any stream other than engineer or medical oozes prophecies of a doomed future. And Even an MBA qualification isnt enough to satisfy them.
Additional certifications, internships, NGO work, etc. will be needed at the time of assigning a master for each slave. A decent life isnt even possible for one who achieves one of the highest passports of the modern day education system.
Sitting behind a desk for 9 hours, and additional 4 hours in transportation.

A sick parent or a wounded spouse becomes of less value, because the fear of being starved to death exists at all times.

This loop exists like a wheel exists for a hamster. You are scared into doing shit that you hate simply so that you'll send your kids in the future to the shit that they'll hate.

Take a statistical count of those are going through the same and the number will always be higher than rape, murder and victims at terror attack numbers. But we are all silent.
We simply stand still and wait for our turn to be slaughtered after seeing the rest having their brains blown into pieces.

We accept it completely, then why do we boast of a present where we have more number of slaves than ever before but the whips and chains have changed?

A prostitute sells her body and the entire world fucks her life, but we do not see how we sell ourselves and our kids as slaves. 

The real self

I look real right? You can touch me, see me, talk to me, kiss me or might even punch me?
These are all are within the box of possible outcomes because I am real.
I am a living entity who is aware of everything that is happening around me.
Lets take a real life example to understand the concept a tad better.

Lets take a man named Aaron, who is Christened after he is brought into this world. The identity given to everything included in that package of a toddler is Aaron, including his bogeys and his waste.

A year goes by. His cells are replaced and new ones are born. After a few more years, more of this occurred. The cells in the blood, organs and tissues are replaced. It has been 10 years since the Christening of Aaron.
So, isnt Aaron... not Aaron anymore? Even his body doesnt look the same nor does his face. Then on what basis is Aaron, Aaron?

Its much like the idea of using the same name for a ship after one hundred percent parts of it are replaced. So, it is the same person? if not, then where did the person who's name was Aaron go?

But if the latter is the truth, why do people share the same name and identity at adulthood which were bestowed on him at birth? There has to be something that enjoins the infinite phases of our lives.
Hence, a fair conclusion can be drawn that the physical aspect of one's body is NOT the true self, nor is it one's identity.
Perhaps, this body, which is nothing more than a vehicle to interact with all possible matter is a part of me, but not my identity.
In that case, why should this body that is subjected to the laws of nature define oneself?

The countless events of bloodbath on the account of everything the physical is, all the result of holding on to an idea of considering one's skin, beliefs, ideas, sex, etc as the true and the only identity? All conflicts to protect the figments of our ego is a sad little truth. 

The Narrow West

Five centuries have passed since mankind decided to seek the world out for themselves. Persecution from the Christian church encountered a gradual decline and views shifted from the divinity towards humanity.

Whatever we have to ourselves today is the outcome of the alterations that took place in the minds of people throughout Europe. Not everything was pretty and perfect, but compared to the past, under the Church, it seemed like a promise to a Utopian future. Scientific reasoning won countless victories over superstitious beliefs held by nothing but dogma and doctrine and it seemed like for the first time, majority believed the earth not as a flat surface.

The lessening importance of religion, traditions, beliefs and regulations gave a more liberated world. People would enter more in their schools than at Sunday School. This trend grew more and more and today we have many those who denounce all of their previously ancestral ideas of divinity.
Some go as far as to conclude that randomness of the cosmos and the lack of an higher intelligence, while we have many who say that they clearly do not know.

The strange pattern which becomes the intersection pints of the pre and post Renaissance movement is the quick to reach conclusions. From the time, Europe was Christened under Constantine, Rigid laws to tackle unchristian beliefs were quickly enforced, many even allowing death for nonconforming with the church. Some of the remnants of the 2000 year old laws continues even today in many parts of the world, veiled in church doctrines. Many Protestant denominations still hold on the puritan ideas of how a functioning society should be.

But, the Atheistic notion of the west... too is making their conclusions on many issues. Religion and ancient ideas are worth mocking and logic has a very narrow and is monopolized by the current ideas of the Atheistic Scientists of the West.
The idea of an all powerful deity in the universe is a laughable idea but the concept of Time dilation near places of dense gravity makes perfect sense?
The Truth is, Neither the Blind theist nor the arrogant atheist knows reasoning. The laws of the universe are showed by atheists as everything that our newly developed minds can comprehend, yet every week we find icy planet that are engulfed in flames, particle interactions that no one can understand and hypothetical possibilities of other dimensions.
In what way do they make sense?
They don't... At least not when you choose to mock it for it's affiliation with one of the two egoistic concepts of the west. But when you dig deeper, you are bound to find sense in it.

It is hard to explain why Stars and Crystals can control one's destiny, as it is hard to explain the concept of the Higgs Boson to someone who's stuck in their own idea of normalcy.

Science and religion in many civilizations worked together until the Western ideas poisoned our understanding of the Creation. The Vedas openly question and show an agnostic approach to the genesis of everything while today, atheism... wants conclusions faster than they can wrap their heads around the basic fact that the laws of the universe is broader than the acceptable ideas of humans today.