Yawn. This is naive beyond tolerance. Don't get me wrong, I hope it proves to become reality, but I don't see it. There is an entire world arrayed against this. Unless some quantum shift occurs pretty well across the globe I am not seeing how this will become fact. The majority of the people in this nation (forget the rest of the world) are in deep and passionate love with their chains. They know the score with their status as slaves that are not called that. This is just like the battered housewife. Why, many ask, would any woman stay with a man who beats her? The answer is simple: the violent husband is familiar - a known quantity - and therefore far less frightening than the unknown "out there". But in the case of people and their slavery it is a whole lot worse. In addition to the fear of the unknown, there is the lassitude of the slave who may complain of his bondage, but when presented the clear opportunity for his freedom, balks. Why? Because to be free requires something of the slave that he has never possessed: responsibility for himself. Slaves are the responsibility of someone else and always have been. It may have sucked to be the senator's catamite or in a field picking cotton all day, but being told what to do, when to do it, and how, has its appeal. In some ways it is less work to be a slave than a free man - or perhaps I should say that the work of the free man is less attractive than that of the slave, in the eyes of the slave.
The majority of Americans love their chains and I don't think there is much that can force them out of that habit. And why should they when they perceive chains as freedom? If you could convince a man that his bone cancer was actually his perfect health, do you think for a moment he would let you anywhere near him with doctors? Not on your life.
