Welcome to "Serf in USA"

The dictionary definition of the term “serf” states that it is based on the word for “slave." Its formal usage is as a reference to one "bound into feudal servitude." We, in the (Western) developed economies, have evolved well past that form of compelled labor. The more modern descriptive usage connotes the state of beng “...without freedom,” under the will of another.

We, the USA, are not bound to the land. We are not now and probably never will be “serfs” in the original, formal sense. However, as the USA moves ever deeper into a global economy driven by managed consumption, we act less as free agents and, correspondingly, increasingly act as agents for others. Thus, despite its largely antiquated context, the appellation "serf" seems a useful characterization of a trend in the preferred role of otherwise "free" individuals. This is seen in the gradual but guided restrictions not only on our rights to choose (which, when recognized, we vigorously oppose) but of restrictions on the choices available to us.

With the government now (at the end of the twenty first century’s first decade) fully in control of the vast financial system by virtue of the implicit guarantees of its survival, can a modern feudal theocracy be far behind? Goldman Sachs is busy “doing God’s work” and the vast majority of people are left with little but as the means for endless overproduction and corresponding compelled over consumption that mocks the concept of economic freedom.

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