Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Supposedly, government ended slavery. Government also legalized and enforced slavery for thousands of years. Now, because of rules that replaced the old rules, individual humans can no longer pretend to own other individual humans, but we are all required to act as though we are owned, collectively, with government as our master. Our money isn’t ours until government scoops its percentages out of the middle. Then it skims off more of our money every time we make a trade — and sometimes, like with property taxes, into perpetuity because someone bought property in the past. Laying claim to the fruits of another’s labor is a defining feature of slavery. Your body isn’t your own, and the value its work creates is claimed by someone else. In this case, the ‘someone’ isn’t an individual who can be defended against, but a spectral collective which is nowhere, yet everywhere at once.” (07/09/25)