HIGHWAY 40 – THE US & ITS ATTEMPT FOR AN EQUAL SOCIAL ORDER
Pre Civil War in America – Essences Preaching Equality & a Land of Equals:
This Essences category was always in existence in our country’s communities of consciousness. But was not the pop theme of thought. For the thought always turned around to the S word that one dared not repeat without starting an argument. The S word was slavery and the acknowledgement that sooner or latter Christ would set the stage for man to get rid of this Wrong behavior.
Slavery was a way of life the Protestant good folks wished to overlook and not see; this slave owning lifestyle for profit without machines was way too inconsistent with their practices of prayers. With the invention of the machines that replaced the manual labor of the slaves in the fields who had to live on the land and be feed to work, the banks came along to create a new class of slave, the slave laborer.
This new class of man did not have to be feed and live on your lands. You the landowner just became a slave to the banks, as you had to mortgage your property to get the machines on loan from the banks.
The new industrial machines cost a pretty penny and most plantation owners didn’t have that kind of cash lying around. So the banks took the property as security for a guarantee that the banks would get their money back. But the property got no guarantee that the machines would turn a profit forever. No, they had to take all the risk at a penalty, the interest they now owed the Banksters of those days.
Slavery, as in owning Man as work and domesticated animals, would be abolished by the civil war. But in other owning and controlling forms as a practice it did not disappear from the good Christian lands.
The Banks became the carpetbaggers from the North and their Sadducee lifestyle. The banks financed the new south. But let’s be very clear, the blacks were not freed because it was wrong. They were freed because rural life was changing and there wasn’t any use for them. Banksters of the North did not need them to work and then have to feed them and house them, and if they did, slavery would never have ended.
America & its Community Spirit of Equality:
Men with a connection to the larger consciousness called Equality were starting to see that our country was not all it was cracked up to be. One of my favorite examples is Thoreau: this Mexican Invasion war was when Thoreau wrote his Civil Disobedience. In this essay first published the year after the Mexican War, in 1849, Thoreau argued people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciousness. He felt people had a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the governments to make them agents of injustice.
Henry Thoreau:
In his writings of that era, Thoreau argued that governments are more harmful than helpful and democracy was no cure. Majorities simply by the virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. He stated in his essay, “You serve your country poorly if you do so by suppressing your conscience in favor of the law because your country needs conscience more than it needs conscienceless robots.”
I could not agree more. Thoreau then stated that if a law is itself clearly unjust and the lawmaking process is not designed to quickly obliterate such unjust laws, then the law deserves no respect and should be broken. I again could not agree more.
The US Constitution was made to even the score. It gave you a means called judicial review, which was a method to change the majorities view and resulting controlling order. Today the US courts are very busy muddling their way around the insane amount of probative laws that our legislature creates in order to confuse so business wins.
Business wins? Yes, business and its true owners, the Banksters who are not necessarily the shareholders by design but by default in a game of musical owners, had the money to play the game of lawsuits. And you without the money and the time to fight the wrongdoing lose.
Time is money and not just the illusion of banks loan. In fact, time may be the only true interest man pays, as that passage we can never get back.
This essay is excerpted from Steven Machat’s Highways of Man. Learn more about the book at StevenMachat.com.