We Must Learn How To

Slavery Was A Central Concern Of Governance Form The Time Of The First Nation-state. The Code Of Hammurabi, The Earliest Know Set Of Laws For Governing An Empire, Prescribed Death For Anyone Who Harbored A Fugitive Or Otherwise Helped A Slave To Escape. The Relationship Between The Law And Bondage Goes Back Even Farther: Indeed, The Oldest Extant Legal Documents Don't Concern The Sale Of Land, Houses, Or Even Animals, But Slaves.

When We Realize The Degree Of Agency We Actually Do Have, We No Longer Have To "hope" At All. We Simply Do The Work.

The Process Of Schooling Does Not Give Birth To Human Beings - As Education Should But Never Will So Long As It Springs From The Collective Consciousness Of Our Culture - But Instead It Teaches Us To Value Abstract Rewards At The Expense Of Our Autonomy, Curiosity, Interior Lives, And Time.

If We Celebrate Life With All Its Contradictions, Embrace, Experience, And Ultimately Live With It, A Chance Exists For A Spiritual Life Filled Not Only With Pain And Untidiness, But Also With Joy, Community, And Creativity.

If Any Thing Can Be Predicated As Universally True Of Uncultivated Man, It Is That He Will Not Labour Beyond What Is Absolutely Necessary To Maintain His Existence.