On Voluntary Servitude…
🇬🇧 On Voluntary Servitude
An 18-year-old man wrote this text 500 years ago. He never imagined it would describe our world. This text nearly disappeared. It was never published during his lifetime. Today, it describes our reality word for word.
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There is a book written almost 500 years ago.
By an 18-year-old man. It’s called On Voluntary Servitude.
And its question is simple, almost too simple. Why do people obey those who oppress them?
His answer will disturb you. It’s not force. It’s not fear. It’s choice:
– The choice to look away.
– The choice to stay silent to keep the peace.
– The choice to consume, to scroll, to pretend it doesn’t concern us.
We watch people being bombed.
We watch powers decide the fate of the weak in the name of democracy.
We watch children die on our phones. And we go about our day.
That is voluntary servitude.
It doesn’t come from above. It starts within us.
It isn’t a tyranny with bars on the windows. It has no borders. It decides who has the right to defend themselves and who doesn’t.
It calls what it does “freedom,” and what we do to resist it “terrorism”?
And we, wherever we are, suffer it too. Without even always naming it. So yes. You look. You see. You feel that powerlessness. That feeling that you can’t do anything.
But that feeling is the most powerful lie anyone has ever sold you. Power exists. It takes other forms. It works differently. It starts right there, in what you choose to name, to support, to refuse, to pass on.
Don’t let it happen. Not because you have all the answers. But because you have a voice. And a conscience. And no one can take that away from you.
@dhikra-360 k
