Bibliopolitical comment
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pasitheaA word of caution for right-wingers about their hostility towards hispanic immigrants.
1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier than we:
1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely
with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there
falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight
against us, and so get them up out of the land.
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew.
Same thing happens later in Rome with the slave revolts. Simple really, if you think about it. Due to load distribution, it takes more than one person to serve an individual so your servant class always ends up larger than your ruling class and then...
You don't have servants you say? Wal-Mart clerks, Taco Bell cooks, Pepsi bottlers, truck drivers, migrant field workers, road repair crews, sewer workers, garbage collectors, and so on. There are hundreds and hundreds of people working tedious, dull, and low-paying jobs so we can sit on our asses in front of the TV/Computer and stroke our own egos about how smart we are.
1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier than we:
1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely
with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there
falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight
against us, and so get them up out of the land.
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew.
Same thing happens later in Rome with the slave revolts. Simple really, if you think about it. Due to load distribution, it takes more than one person to serve an individual so your servant class always ends up larger than your ruling class and then...
You don't have servants you say? Wal-Mart clerks, Taco Bell cooks, Pepsi bottlers, truck drivers, migrant field workers, road repair crews, sewer workers, garbage collectors, and so on. There are hundreds and hundreds of people working tedious, dull, and low-paying jobs so we can sit on our asses in front of the TV/Computer and stroke our own egos about how smart we are.
