http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1104/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1104/#comment-12588 John Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:22:44 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1104/#comment-12588 Yeah, people who are nostalgic for the old days tend to gloss over a lot of the crap that went with the old days. To say nothing of disease (coupled with a lack of modern medicines), oppression, etc. I'm not saying there aren't individual things we can learn and emulate in past ages, but let's be realistic - and leave me my air conditioning, airline travel and computers! Yeah, people who are nostalgic for the old days tend to gloss over a lot of the crap that went with the old days. To say nothing of disease (coupled with a lack of modern medicines), oppression, etc. I’m not saying there aren’t individual things we can learn and emulate in past ages, but let’s be realistic - and leave me my air conditioning, airline travel and computers!

]]> http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1104/#comment-12587 Stacey Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:23:26 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1104/#comment-12587 For the next <b>3 days</b>, they threw the 133 (with one survivor) people overboard. To their death... Okay, now I know slavery was a long standing tradition, even before there was an organized slave trade there were traders who took people from one land and sold them to people in another land. The Vikings were slavers, as were the Romans and many others, right? And throwing people overboard didn't start with the Zong either... but this story is still just plain sick. The captain and the crew together murdered 132 people over 3 days. On purpose. To make sure investors didn't lose money on the slaves. And, aside from the investors losing money once the insurance company got wise, they got away with it. And it would still be well over a century before slavery was outlawed (at least in the states)? Have I mentioned how happy I am to be living now? I know there is still slavery in the world, but at least it isn't accepted as a 'natural order' anymore. For the next 3 days, they threw the 133 (with one survivor) people overboard. To their death…
Okay, now I know slavery was a long standing tradition, even before there was an organized slave trade there were traders who took people from one land and sold them to people in another land. The Vikings were slavers, as were the Romans and many others, right? And throwing people overboard didn’t start with the Zong either… but this story is still just plain sick. The captain and the crew together murdered 132 people over 3 days. On purpose. To make sure investors didn’t lose money on the slaves. And, aside from the investors losing money once the insurance company got wise, they got away with it. And it would still be well over a century before slavery was outlawed (at least in the states)?
Have I mentioned how happy I am to be living now? I know there is still slavery in the world, but at least it isn’t accepted as a ‘natural order’ anymore.

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