on human liberation

not

The majority of people suffered as commoners/plebes/peons (as: toilers, laborers, slaves, serfs, coolies, proletarians, etc.) during the aberrant period of (relatively modern) civilization during which power elites have ruled and benefited.

Development has been achieved on the backs of workers. Suffering, there has been a yearning for salvation, for being saved, for liberation.

A salvational longing was expressed via Christianity. Afterlife liberation.

In recent centuries, for during-life liberation, hopes were placed in industrialism and then socialism.

In recent decades there was the idea that the internet would liberate us from drudgery.

The malaise of our times has much to do with the disappointment in all those things.

“Just can’t get no . . . liberation.”