Slaves

One of the most interesting things that we talked about in class this week was the idea of slaves, slave values, and the slave revolt in morality.  The slavish way of thinking is that the weak use their weakness as a strength to defend themselves against the powerful.  I had never thought of our society in that type of way before, but the more I pondered it, the more I began to realize that a lot of our society is made up of people with slavish thoughts, feelings, and ideas.  Our society is very good at using our weaknesses to make the powerful seem like bad people solely based on the fact that they use their power.  For example, people with hardly any money like to consider rich people to be stuck up regardless of the type person they are.  However, there are many people with a lot of money that worked very hard to earn the money they have.  They might be rich, but that does not make them a bad person.  Stereotyping people in that type of way is just one of many examples of how someone with a slave mentality acts.  The slave revolt in morality shows why slaves think this way.  A noble would say being good is being noble, powerful, healthy, happy, and beautiful, and because of all these things, God loves the nobles.  In contrast, a slave would say because God loves the slaves, they are beautiful, happy, healthy, etc.  That reversal shows why a slave would think that a rich person was bad solely because they have money.  I feel like the slave mentality is a very poor way to look at things the more I think about it, but I am definitely guilty for thinking like this.  After talking about it this week, I want to try to get out of this way of thinking.