The Disease of Slavery: Its Dangers, Medicine, and Immunity
The Disease of Slavery: Its Dangers, Medicine, and Immunity Breaking the chains of fear, academic exploitation, corporate control, and inherited submission through truth, knowledge, and faith Introduction: Thanking God for Freedom I thank God for delivering me from slavery. For a long time, I understood slavery primarily as a historical institution in which human beings were deprived of their freedom and treated as property. But as I reflected on my own experiences, I began to recognize another dimension of human bondage: the fear that can develop within a person who has learned to live under authority without questioning it. I remember fearing my schoolteachers, high school teachers, and even the people I encountered during my bachelor's and master's degrees. One reason was that I did not know as much chemistry as I thought I should. I believed that having an academic degree meant I should already know everything expected of me. I did not fully understand that knowledge is an ...