Slavery and caste and a bit better than others

Many democratic orientated people agree with the Declarations of Rights and give all humans the same value. But it is always hard to overlook that you yourself is worth a bit more than others anyhow. As a guest in India you see that in some ways. I am every day asked by young people on the beach to have a selfie with a stranger. It is not the usual thing of starting a conversation and as soon as possible try to sell something to you. No, they more over look at me as someone exclusive to talk to. They are interested in where I come from and they readily tell me of persons they know is living close to my hometown or country.

Nature has given us a body, physics and colour of the skin that give us a maximum of chance for survival in the area we live in. But like Michael Jackson some Indians wants to get away from this and many companies are trying to sell methods for getting a brighter skin. In the same manner I saw people in New Zeeland desperately avoid any sunshine. This strange relation to the surroundings can be hard to understand. If they are not satisfied, they ought to move. But they are satisfied. Very satisfied with their middle class living. They just want to have a nicer appeal. Sigh!

Man is using since long before ice age a lot of jewelry to be more attractive. The compare is often with the other Mrs in the cave. Tattoos is often a cultural sign, along with clothes. Nowadays the tattoos are more popular because they have a kind tough show off, If you want to appeal, you are gonna feel.

It is the poor, and sometimes even the destitute, that give the middle class their really value. A poor working class with high unemployment and often low rate of union organisation, has no power to defend themselves for better salaries. The employers decide and they do not spend unnecessary money.  If you can use the workers from sheds and the huts with low costs for their living, the less you spend. The middle class also mirror themselves in the poor to feel better. On the other hand they also read magazines with the glamour of the richest and get low in their comparison, but also get new goals.

The history invented the organized violence from the Power and turned people into slaves. Thousand years ago most people lived in slavery under classes of Power. Most religions took part against slavery as a disgusting way of treating people, but they also placed themselves in the centre of Power and worked conservative.

It is easy to see that I do not need to take care of my slaves if I can easily get new ones. Very few revolts were started by the slaves and almost no managed. But many slaves were brought to the battle fields to feed the canons.

To legalize the violence of the Power and its use of slavery, the societies came up with a lot of myths. The Vikings had their stories and so in all other kingdoms. The rulers built temples and carried on the sacrifices of humans to show the power, but also to instruct a system. 

Here in India they constructed a caste system, which simply told everyone that Swedes were much better than these damned Finns and that the lapps were the lowest creature you could think of (translated to Swedish terms). The system not only defined your personal value out of your class, but also defined your occupation. To make all your hard efforts easier people were told that they would get the chance of a better life in the next life if they behaved well. The idea is copied between most religions.

Through efforts and development of systems of more democratic views slavery and racist systems were criminalized in most countries. Here in India and in most countries, and the countries signed the Declaration of Rights and the Rights of Children.

Today many more people live under circumstances of slavery, in Sweden as well in India, and in all other countries in the world. The only difference is that the systems are unlawful today. But it is as with passing the red light at the pedestrian crossing. If you do not have any punishment or anti activity, the slavery keeps on working. Newly the Swedish Systembolaget selling alcohol to the Swedes was caught with cooperating with slave dealers in wine productions. In what way do we punish the responsible for taking part in such activities?

Now the friend of order protests against my telling of slavery in Sweden. Where the hell is that Maniac Lennart finding slavery in a nice country like Sweden? Well, there are many ways it works. Some people still thinks that prostitutes freely work in the street. They are not. So many times the story how gangsters recruit girls to prostitution have been told, but still people seem not to understand. Slavery is always carried out with some violence. How long would you stand torture? We can beat you til you give up. Then we can use drugs to keep you or just prison your daughter or your mother and threaten to kill them.

Often they organize slavery in an easier way. You are just told that owe someone more money than you ever can pay. The rest of your life you must pay off the all the time increasing depth. These men in their clothes of the motor cycle club visit you convincingly and are happy to show you what you have to expect if no money is presented. 

In many poorer countries, with a weaker system of rights for the people, is this a big working system, where daughters are part of the payings, if they are attractive enough. Maybe you believed that the prostitutes in Thailand or other Asian countries freely locked themselves into prostitution? Or that they freely moved to prostitution in Europe?

Now, the most of the slavery is more over working to get the cheapest costs of labour.

Caste system and slavery is forbidden in law in India, as it is forbidden to smoke in the restaurants. There are signs everywhere. But if you light a cigarette they give you an ash tray. Even the owner himself shows his attitude by smoking sometimes

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If you ask an Indian about the caste and the former system, he has nothing to add. There is no such thing. It was so long time ago. But if you mention all the different people that live in India, he can still place them as above and below. By making a crime a crime by law we start a very slow process. It is only by an active work on the Declaration of Rights in real life and the extinction of powerty in the world, that we can reach the goals. To get there we need to decrease to population of the world and construct societies based on solidarity and equal possibility.

This text is sponsored by the library of Kungsängen outside Stockholm and Lennart is only  responsible for the content of the text as long no one is threatening to beat him up.