@Captaincranky, I do understand your views and your thoughts and I would have to agree with you 98% except for the last part about Slavery and the internet.
... ]... As soon as you poped out, you were not free, You became a Slave to the system, whatever that is or was at that time. Mom and Dad had to sign some papers in the hospital along with the Doctors signature saying you were born alive to the Local,State and Federals. You became a number to the system, again, whatever that is or was at the time.
While I do understand the enthusiasm for rebelliousness, it doesn't really justify applying the term "slavery" to a culture expecting your adherance to its conventions and mores. Human advancement does require cooperation and participation by a multitude of different skills and ideas. Freedom "has it's limits", and as oxymoronic as that sounds, the only state of human existence without any operational parameters applied is dead.:dead:
Slavery can be an illusion created in an individuals own mind. If you believe you're enslaved by having to go out and earn a living to feed your family, you are. If you do it because you want to, you're a free man.
I do believe that one of the first things we all learned as newborns was when our bellies were grumbling and we were hungry, We CRIED ! We were tiny screaming little things that at that time, we didn't really care about anything except to cry to get what we wanted.
I would submit that, as an infant, crying for food is an instinct, not a learned response. It really doesn't manifest itself as a "learned response", until someone carries it forward into adulthood. Which of course, many people do. Of course, "adulthood", broadens greatly the scope of things people are willing to annoy others by crying after. It's simply isn't just about food when you're a "grownup"...
Our existence follows Darwinian principles to a certain degree, and the concept of "human rights" mitigates the harshness of reality. Unfortunately, we live in an age were so many people think they have "the right" to run their mouth on a cell phone or surf the web, while leeching their existence out of public entitlements and contributing nothing to society in return. And somebody wants to make the internet a "human right"? Then nothing will get done, now will it?
Anyway, the concept of slavery, directly attaches itself to "involuntary servitude", and only by the most irresponsible extravagance of twisted metaphor, could the term be applied to "internet access" or lack thereof .