the master-servant morality, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 239

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Only “hard workers” have a real chance for an authentic existence and high fate.  Unfortunately, it is almost always the master-servant morality which produces these hard workers.  When the servant finally breaks with the master, the language appropriate to their former ranks still persists within society.  For the master, the moral predicament remains unchanged.  This free man has become “lazy” ... “a quitter” ... “a threat to society” ... and all of this while the free man endures the roughest labor ... struggling to stand alone ... and on the other side of that unbridgeable gulf between the old rank and the new.


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