A NEW DEFINITION OF 21ST CENTURY SLAVERY? (01) by Ajith Rohan J.T.F., Rome

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“Human trafficking is the third biggest illicit trade on the planet, behind only illegal arms and drugs. We all aware that slavery is a global problem that’s difficult to eradicate too, but if anybody is willing to do something to stop this within their living area, that is the choice we need. Your will connected with action can stop it”.

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A NEW DEFINITION OF 21ST CENTURY SLAVERY?

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Why this reflection?

When humans were less sophisticated, objectively, instrumental, intellectually and especially linguistically, actions and reactions were direct and explicit. They did not hide behind “dark rhetoric” and instrumentalizing “human rights”, “democracy” and abusing power and trust for self and group interests. Today everything has been rendered banal and inaccurate by the explicit abuse of communication through scientific and technological advancement. Inaccuracy and banality have become qualities of the so-called “normal”. Thus, the invented and fragile “humanity” and “cultural-civil” dynamics are challenged by continuous conflicts and wars. These in turn unlock and encourage a primitive congenital pleasure: dominion over others and playing with victims to feel safe, great and powerful. They do this because “they can”. Thus, we have on-going “neo-colonization” and “neo-slavery” all over the world with 50 million slaves. (28 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage- 2021). The root of contemporary slavery is linked to neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, conflicts, wars, poverty, discrimination, and a lack of SPEC (socio-politic-economic-cultural-civil) system protection.

Slavery is worse than a pandemic

Slavery exists in every country. I am writing this on 02nd September 2025, and the relevant numbers and tragic incidents I know of have increased exponentially during these years of fragmented and dispersed Third World War around the world. For example, in Gaza, though there are no exact calculations available, according to different approximate calculations, tens of thousands of women and children as of August 2025 are missing. This crucial and worse than pandemic human behaviour right now is overwhelmingly growing all over the world in almost all human activities. The world organizations are just collecting data with big world information and AI companies thinking of nothing further than informing among them and maybe sending collected data to relevant countries. These data may help the relevant countries to take suitable action to eradicate slavery(?).

Normalized slavery is enjoyable

I personally observe slavery around me. Nobody seems preoccupied or to notice this dynamic phenomenon. As we all know, to get used to anything good or bad, it has to be a “habit” of the people or the individual. So, I have noted that among people here “slavery” became “normal” or something habitual to their routine of life. Consequently, it is not seen as different or something alarming. If necessary, anybody has to experience it – or become a master or a slave. All are enjoying this situation. For example, today, 02. 09. 2025, when I was having coffee with my friends at a “bar” (Italy), I started this argument, but they didn’t understand the objective meaning of “slavery”. They confused this with “control” over for example “inexperienced foreign work force” (in Italy they use the “gangmaster” figure). They justify this “gangmaster” control clandestinely because it makes profit. I had to report many real examples at least to make them understand what this dynamic “slavery” is, which is strictly connected with “colonization” and on-going conflicts and wars.

Conclusion

Therefore, this reflection is necessary because, as I have briefly reported above, the architecture of human subjugation has evolved despite human rights, international laws and local SPEC systems, like a virus gradually creating antibodies, gets used to the antidote. Now slavery is growing further aggressively, making more victims. It has migrated from the overt, physical chains sanctioned by law to the subtle, insidious systems sanctioned by economy, technology, and social indifference.

21st-century slavery is a condition of pervasive exploitation maintained not solely by physical force, but by calculated and systemic pressures. It is the asymmetric power dynamic where one's labour, body, or existence is rendered disposable for another's profit or convenience. Its core mechanism is not ownership of people, but the strategic control over their options, trapping them in cycles of dependency from which escape is engineered to be improbable or impossible.

Its instruments are modern:

The algorithm that optimizes for maximum engagement at the cost of mental well-being, creating digital sharecroppers of our attention. 

• The supply chain that externalizes cost onto the most vulnerable, demanding a pace and price that can only be met by exploitative labour. 
• The debt structure - from predatory payday loans to indentured servitude through migration brokers, that creates a perpetual obligation, negating the freedom of one's own future labour. 
• The legal framework that criminalizes poverty and irregular status, channelling individuals into for-profit prison systems where their work is compelled for little to no pay.

As I repeated, the neo-slavery thrives on a rhetoric of "normalcy" and "innovation," disguising exploitation as opportunity. It is the banality of a system that asks for your life in exchange for survival, all while celebrating the illusion of choice. It is the congenital pleasure of dominion reborn as corporate policy and geopolitical strategy, the powerful playing with the lives of the vulnerable because the architecture they built ensures that they can. Money and power speak louder than human rights. Thus, the world SPEC systems are like three monkeys: deaf, mute, blind (total indifference).

Thus, the new colonization is not of land, but of life itself - of time, attention, and biological necessity, creating a global hierarchy of the used and the users.

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I issue a personal summons: do what lies within your power to halt the critical emergency of human trafficking. We must train a relentless focus on the particular scourge of child trafficking. Our world’s SPEC (socio-politic-economic-cultural-civil) machinery, willy-nilly, grinds on in service to money and power, systematically neglecting the poor and the oppressed. This is the 21st century, yet it remains plagued by ancient horrors like - debt bondage, child labour, forced prostitution, sex slaves, child soldiers, organ harvesting. This ends only if we converge. Your awareness is a start; your action is crucial. So, how do we start? What can we do? Begin immediately. Begin within your orbit. Pay attention. Act.

 

Freedom and Freedom of Love Within SPEC Invented "Natural-Family" Scheme (part 01) By Ajith Rohan J.T.F., Rome

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Freedom and Freedom of Love Within 
SPEC Invented "Natural-Family" Scheme

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PART 01

An Open Letter to the 21st centuries Global Common Mind-set (LETTER 02) by Ajith Rohan J.T.F., Rome

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An Open Letter to the 21st centuries Global Common Mind-set (LETTER 02)

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Objective of letter 02: The Suicide of Sameness (uniform-flat mind-set)

The philosophy of complementary humanism as I defined it founded on differences and opposites that complete mutually: “At its core, complementarity refers to a relationship in which different elements interact in a way that enhances or completes one another, creating a functional or conceptual whole greater than the sum of its parts. This principle suggests that opposites or distinct entities can coexist in a mutually beneficial relationship rather than in conflict.” Consequently, this practical philosophy frames a uniform mentality as auto-destructive and suicidal processes. Thus, I avoid this letter being mere moralizing to a practical warning: that is to say, this, uniform and flattened world mindset isn’t simply “bad for others”; it is ultimately self-annihilating for any SPEC system or individual or group or society that practices it.

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A uniform and flat mentality destroys diversity.

What does this statement convey? I, first break it down to observe how it’s so significant, examining it from individual, organizational and societal perspectives. 

This mentality can be described as: 

    A. Uniform: Demanding conformity, sameness, and adherence to a single way of thinking, behaving, and believing. It estimates consistency over creativity. 

    B. Flat: Lacking depth, nuance, or hierarchy of different effective perspectives. It dismisses complexity and seeks simple, one-size-fits-all answers. 

     C. Enforced and shielded under quasi dogmatic-fanatic invisible authorities. 

This mentality is often enforced through extremist groupthink, rigid traditions, oppressive systems, and a SPEC system that prizes assimilation above all else. This type of mentality is already being released and propagated under the name of AI systems. For example, through AI, a “uniform-flat” human mind-set is more active than through socio-politic-economic-cultural-civil (SPEC) processes (But this argument about AI, has to be discussed separately in another letter because it goes too deep).

Petty Knowledge and SPEC system dominion leads to a hackneyed boring world

Right now, the so-called scientific, technological, and other forms of intellectual knowledge are clearly under Western, U.S.A., and allies’ control, and nobody can freely come up with a new knowledge or theory. No matter the value and the functionality of a theory or knowledge, without the approval of this “visible-invisible” power, it cannot be applied or welcomed. Effectively, we are already gazing at such a smell of this flat and uniform knowledge in all academic institutions all over the world and in what we can read in so-called great books (full of cliché). They all are thinking with the same concepts, words, procedures, methods, and accorded or unchallenging outcomes that never confront or compromise the West-U.S.A. and allies’ “visible-invisible” authority.

Uniform and flat mind-set lead to auto-destruction and suicidal mind-set

I briefly jot down about this with some extremist SPEC movements that had historically reported devastating situations to the whole world, yet they are still being working for a “uniform and flat” world. Namely they are – Fascism (present day Neo-Fascist movement or Far-right movements)) and Nazism (at present: Neo-Nazism).

The drive toward a uniform and flat mentality is not just a characteristic of fascism and Nazism; it is their very foundation and primary mechanism of control.

Both ideologies are built on the violent enforcement of a single, monolithic identity and the eradication of all diversity - racial, political, ideological, cultural, psychological and intellectual.

Here’s a few points on how this tendency manifests as the core of fascist and Nazi ideology:

1. The Myth of the Homogeneous National Community (Volksgemeinschaft)

I. The Core Idea: Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy promoted the concept of a national community based on purity and unity. For the Nazis, this was the Volksgemeinschaft (people's community), which was defined by a shared "blood" or race (Aryan/Nordic).

II. Eradication of Diversity: This community was, by definition, exclusive. It required the identification and elimination of those deemed "outsiders" or "enemies of the state" who were blamed for the nation's problems. This included Jews, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), Slavs, Black people, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and political and intellectual dissidents.

III. The "Flat" Mentality: The complexity of a modern, diverse society was rejected in favour of a simplistic, mythical past of racial purity and national glory. Anyone who complicated this narrative was a threat.

2. The Rejection of Pluralism and Debate

I. "One People, One Empire, One Leader" (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer): This Nazi slogan perfectly encapsulates the rejection of diversity. Pluralism, the idea that multiple groups, parties, and ideas can coexist and compete peacefully - is the antagonist of fascism.

II. Suppression of Opposition: All rival political parties, trade unions, and independent media were abolished. There was to be no debate, no dissent, and no alternative sources of power or information. The state's ideology was the only permitted truth.

3. The Cult of Tradition and Anti-Intellectualism

I. Rejection of "Decadent" Modern Art: The Nazis infamously condemned modern, abstract, and avant-garde art as "degenerate" (Entartete Kunst). They favoured a flat, simplistic, and heroic artistic style that served state propaganda.

II. Attack on Intellectuals: Free-thinking intellectuals, scientists, and philosophers who challenged the regime's simplistic worldview were persecuted, fired from universities, and forced into exile or worse. Ideas were only valued if they served the state's ideology.

4. The Scapegoating of the "Other"

I. Creating a Unified "Us" vs. a Demonized "Them": This is perhaps the most critical tool. A uniform mentality cannot be created solely through positive reinforcement of unity. It requires a common enemy to define itself against. The present world is unanimously accorded with treating “immigrants” as the common enemy. As the world is convinced, the most civilized and rich countries of Europe, U.S.A. and their allies are explicitly following this idea: immigrant is an enemy and a threat to be eliminated. They have instrumentalized strategically human rights, democracy, sovereign state and defence of territories from enemies.

II. Diversity as a Threat: Nazis portrayed diversity itself as a Jewish-Bolshevik plot to weaken the nation. The existence of different ethnicities, political beliefs, and sexual orientations was framed not as a natural state of society but as a deliberate attack on the "health" of the Volk. The "final solution"—the Holocaust—was the ultimate, horrific expression of the desire to eliminate this diversity and create a "pure," uniform society.

I would explicitly ask those Jews in Israel today who are deliberately targeting innocent children, youth, adults, and the elderly and bombing schools, nurseries, and hospitals in Gaza – are you conscious of your history and your present lifestyle? Are you thinking of an ideologically perfect state where there are no enemies and differences, but everything is homogeneous, as Hitler believed and tried to establish? I have added these two questions because even today, 25 August 2025, the Israeli army targeted a hospital and killed innocents and journalists in Gaza. It is absurd!

Conclusion

This is the great paradox of your pursuit of safety through sameness: it is the most dangerous gamble you can make. You are sacrificing your freedom of being in the world as an authentic individual, your creativity, your resilience, your adaptability, and your understood very humanity, on the bench of a comfortable, yet false, consensus.

The alternative is not chaos or SPEC anarchism. It is intelligent pluralism. It is a society that understands strength is derived from a symphony of differences, not a monotonous drone. It is the courage to be challenged, the humility to learn from conflict, and the wisdom to build systems that protect the right to be different, not the mandate to be the same.

So, if can wisely and freely, Stop the suicide. Embrace the friction. Seek out the dissonant voice, the unfamiliar idea, the person and perspective that does not fit. For it is only in that diversity - of thought, of identity, of experience - that any true and lasting security can ever be found.