Levi Türk

Slavery in our societies is formally abolished. But when you look at the world carefully, you will find slavery everywhere. Take the obvious exemple: farm animals. The system around institutionalized enslavement of animals is so widespread, so deep, that most of us humans don't even think about it as slavery. It is sort of normal for most of us that animals are born and then slaughtered for their meat. I would like to stress here that they are slaughtered. Human slaves weren't usually killed, they were just exploited for their work, and while one could argue that it is even worse than being raised for meat, it clearly shows that a double standard is applied to non-human animals. And I respect that. Humans first. What is a human, though? Insofar as we are a collection of cells, we are a walking zoo of oppressed and slaughtered organs. Take the skin. An average skin cell lives for about 3 months. When they are born, they are relatively close to the veins bringing nutr...

'I should order my room.' Who says that? Is that you?  Your consciousness? Your mom? Your flatmate? The 'boss' inside you? I have a theory. You have two guys living inside you. One is the Master and the other is the SLAVE. I wouldn't order my room unless the Master really convinces me to. I don't like to go shopping. I don't like to wake up early. I don't like to change the light bulb. Or do I? After all it's not me, who does it. It's the guy who controls my body, its the SLAVE who does whatever I ask him. I actually rather prefer to have my room ordered and my light bulb changed. I am sometimes pretty pissed off by the lazy SLAVE who refuses to do whatever I ask him. I mean I get him social status, I feed him, I get him to cool places, I get him dates, for God's sake! My SLAVE should be way more obedient to me. He depends on me not ME on him. My fragile, lazy, addicted, subcortical slave shall serve M...