Have You Ever Thought About Slavery?

I’ve thought long and hard about the issue.

It occurs to me that George Fitzhugh was on to something in his books Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters and Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society.

Don’t get mad and bent out of shape about history. There is nothing we can do about any of that. It is more profitable to think about his criticisms of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This was the social and economic model that triumphed in the post-Civil War United States. Fitzhugh accurately predicted that people would lose their minds as it ran its course.

Now, what if slavery was “restored” in some way, say, a humanitarian way? The slaves in this futuristic world be the technology and machines that generate wealth. We could expropriate and redistribute the wealth as the owners and live out a leisurely, aristocratic life of luxury.

We would then be the master class.