Varg is a funny dude.
He made me wonder. Is he correct?
Is he correct?
He's correct on many levels although we would not have many of the luxuries we enjoy today without modern civilization. The tribal societies like the Native American Indians are the best way to have life and purpose without a lot of the nonsense and exploitation which exists today.
What levels is he correct on?
Since the dawn of man, long before civilization, just about everyone has had to labor to survive. For almost as long there have been a privileged few that had to labor less, for more.
A class system does require slavery to function.
He is correct in that our current society breeds exploitation. Exploitation is a product of a functioning civilization especially one where the economic model is based on capitalism.
The tribal society like the Indians lived off the land and were free to hunt and plant gardens. Their job was to live, not to work. That becomes the biggest difference. In today’s society we work to live. In a tribal society there was only life. Work was the byproduct not the source or mainstay.
It does feel that way sometimes, everyone getting ripped off and exploited and the distribution of wealth being worse than in feudal times..
But you can't compare because we get to live in modern society. Can you put a price on keyhole surgeries and antibiotics? In contrast to ages past we live in a sci fictionesque "high tech" world, where even a pauper has cell phones more miraculous than anything from a few centuries past.
Explain what any of that has to do with slavery.
Also, are you ignoring just how much work is involved in tribal life and how quickly the tribe dies if they don't do it, or if it goes wrong? Damn, not enough rain, STARVATION. Damn, too much rain, STARVATION. Damn, a bear killed our two best hunters, STARVATION.
We work far too many hours in the week at present but it's a choice. Think about how much money people are spending on entertainment or prepared food and consider how few hours you'd have to work to maintain a sustenance level lifestyle, as if you were in a tribe hundreds of years ago. You know, if that's really what you want, you could probably buy a plot of land on the outskirts of some small town and work a day or two a week to pay for food and maintenance on the shack you live in. That is an option that is available to you. People do that.
The thing about slavery is that it doesn't come with options, you don't get to pick from a menu. People work long hours because they want the things that you get with the money you earn. Or, they have a family to support and want a certain standard for that family, which is a choice.
Personally, think the video was silly, and using the word slavery was misleading.
Go ahead and read my last two responses it should offer some perspective which I believe counters your thinking."But my boss makes me come to work at 8:30! Slave driver!" Do you get whipped if you don't turn up? Do you then have to turn up anyway? Do you get killed if you continue to not turn up? "I don't like doing what I voluntarily agreed to do because it's boring and annoying and doesn't fulfil me as a magnificent individual snowflake that I know deep inside I am" is different to "I do this or I am killed. Those are my two options."
Go ahead and read my last two responses it should offer some perspective which I believe counters your thinking.
He's an "odinist"Sounds like an idiot.
Criticizing civilization for bringing us "multiculturalism" raised a flag as well.