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This short phrase came to me this morning. I think it a good title for a story or book.
The ancient city of Petra was said to be ‘a city of slaves.’ Aristotle in THE POLITICS proposed that if a city could exist for purposes other than the good of citizens, we might find it to be a city of slaves or animals.
In many parts of the world, as the agrarian populous is moved from the farm to the urban environs, we see these rural poor crumble among the economic drives of the city. Where before they would glean their food from the fields, today, they must earn their wages. Everything is money. They cannot feed themselves because they have learned how to till fields and gather nuts, fruits, wheat, rice, potatoes, and barley; Not punch a clock. They are slaves; Slaves in a city of slaves. Slaves as we all are; Slaves to our wages, to our jobs, to our careers, to money.
Can you tell that I am driving to work?
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