James Baldwin was an much accomplished American writer. He garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. He once said: “History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. ” He made a good point. But we shall also bear in mind that the past is meant to be learned from, not held onto and used as a weapon.
In this short video clip asking the question of Why Is This History Of Slavery Hidden In Schools? Dr. Thomas Sowell, an American author, economist, political commentator, social theorist who does not affiliate with any party, so erudite, open and knowledgeably pointed out that he had ” study slavery in various parts of the world, and various times of history, the sad fact is that slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years as far back as you can trace human history. And what we’re looking at is if slavery is something that happened to One race of people in one country when in fact the spread of it was around the world. Right in 1776 when Adam Smith published the Wealth of Nation as well as when the United States just got started, he said that Western Europe is the only place in the world where there is no slavery…. if you are going to have reparations for slavery, it is going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth and cross hauling the number of whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States, and in the American colonies before that put together. But no one will bother to North Africa to ask for reparations as they know that no one there is going to be fool enough to give it to them.”
Big applause for Dr. Sowell. Some of the audience commented that if we lived in a sane society this man would be president; and that “Amazing how so many point out injustices in their own country but develop total Amnesia about the rest of the world.” Just see what is going on in Middle East and the Russia Ukraine War. All these propaganda are controlled by the Plutocracy to undermine true democracy. But there are people of integrity who went out of way to speak of truth, Professor Sachs is another respectful intellect. “We Are a Plutocracy”: Jeffrey Sachs Slams Biden for Offering to Preserve Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts. John MacArthur is another: Why Evil Leaders Exist.
Another example is Carolyn Baker’s Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse. She asked how did we arrive where we are now: American society dominated by corporations and their interests, an economy based on war and the weapons industry, trillions of dollars missing from federal government agencies, the annihilation of our civil liberties and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution, the dumbing-down of America and the reduction of our educational system to the lowest common denominator, Peak Oil-the best-kept secret in America, and the polarization of economic prosperity and quality of life? By connecting the dots between current events and their ultimate roots, Carolyn Baker provides a perspective that assists the reader in navigating America’s precarious present and its faltering future.
Henry Ford famously said, “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” In a era when Plutocracy control the media and brain wash people, it is quite exceptional to see such honesty intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Jeffrey Sach, John McArthur, and Carolyn Baker, who got out of their way to speech of truth.
From my perspective, what is absolute truth? Shakyamuni Buddha’s teaching, Confusias teachings are among some of the absolute truth I am so gratefully received.
