You are living in a tiny window of time, in a tiny corner of that window. There was nothing even approaching individual freedom until the last couple thousand years of human civilization, and it was at a miniscule burn level until the latter part of the middle ages, and only became substantial for a significant share of humans after the American Revolution. It is still the minority societal system, by far, in the world. (note: it was different prior to the development of civilization, which only started when agriculture was invented and people began to organize into cities. Hunter gatherer societies had a lot of individual freedom…but of course, hunter gatherer lifespans were less than 1/2 of what lifespans are today, oftentimes MUCH less than 1/2.)
The history of civilization after the American revolution has been dominated by the greatest expansion of human capability and wealth, by orders of magnitude, than anything that ever happened before…but also by the most concerted effort to put that genie of freedom back in the bottle that the world has ever seen. The self-proclaimed elites, you see, don’t like the fact that don’t have absolute power over you. Every morsel of food you put in your mouth is a morsel that you are taking out of their mouth, and they will kill you in a heartbeat to get back to what they consdier the normal situation: them as aristocrats, you as a serf.
And they invented marxism to make it happen. Marxism is simply the con to trick the rubes back into their hovels.
It’s working like a Swiss watch. Latest proof…OWS. Promise to give them something for free confiscated from someone else and they will become foot soldiers in the war to return themselves to their prisons, every time
