Tatooed By My Past

We are not animals, so do not treat us that way. This is the way many felt during the Revolutionary Period. The government was the puppet master and it ruled and controlled all men. The law enslaved men, forbidding men from being human. Men had no freedom, their freedom was tied into the dictatorship of the law. This was the nature of men, and in today's society things are somewhat the same. The law still enslaves most men. The power of the is to keep men at bay, just like animals. Society is only allowed to do what the law allows. Freedom is not a choice. The law was a legal system input by the power men in government to enslave men. John Locke thought that men by nature should govern themselves and not be governed by other men, which was a form of slavery. This is the same system that exists in today's society. Men are enslaved by the system that the government imputed, which shows that history repeats itself. Now David Hume, on-the-other-hand, saw things different.

       I believe that Henry Fielding and Jonathan Swift would have been very critical of social media today. They would have been deeply involved in the political satire of the president and how he belittles and constantly attacks the poor and needy. Especially Swift, who was very politically active during his lifetime. Swift saw the poverty and misusing of the poor during his era. He wrote about the poor conditions of poor women and their children. He expressed how the women offered up their children as if they were food for the wealthy. Swift compared the poor children to meals being served to the wealthy. The poor had no choice in their lives, and there was no way for them to escape poverty. "A Modest Proposal", exposed the greed of society and their feelings for the poor. The poor gave up their children in order to feed their children. They begged almost their entire lives in order to survive from day to day. The poor had no chance of moving up in class, this was a tat