Wednesday, 10 September 2025

MY AGATHOKAKOLOGICAL DAYS - (day 01) - Ajith Rohan J.T.F., Rome

I spend days to find or to compose the correspondent word for my thought

I encountered this adjective – “agathokakological” while I was organizing my collection of personal concepts for my thought processes to make a personal dictionary. I found this term in a phrase written by the English poet Robert Southey (1813-1843): “For indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found.” It is truly one of the best combinations I have ever used, different from official academic repetitions. So, I have decided to apply this adjective, a combination of “good” and “evil” together (agathos – good + kakos-bad, evil + logos-study), as the title of my daily reflection.

My first try of narrating life – “WATER, Man the Narrator”

For years, I avoided the powerful desire to write down my feelings on paper or any other means of communication. But I couldn't help it, and as a result, fifteen years ago I started my comic story "WATER, Man the Narrator" to narrate my story philosophically and epistemologically to understand myself. The comic story still gives me a lot of fun and helps me to cohesively organize the relevant logical patterns of my mind. I have started to communicate my world view synthetically and concisely in comic dialogues. I am experiencing how my dynamic world is moving, changing, and transforming. I have also vividly noticed the mind's dynamism and its dependent and independent reality. Furthermore, the most intriguing thing is to perceive the dynamic nature of memories and logical patterns of the mind: they are dynamic and without definitive forms, which in turn behave just like water that takes the shape of its container.

No worries – my systemic and epistemological refusal

I do not think, worry, or take seriously other people's judgments about me. Others (including my so-called family members and friends) cannot say anything about me for certain, for several fundamental reasons that no one can possibly know. I have a clearly distinct individual life of my own. I have never opened it and let anybody know about it yet. That is why I simply ignore everything others say. To me, they are simply projecting their flaws, their effects, their likes and dislikes, their emotional issues, and what they suffer to make me one of their scapegoats. This has happened to me often since my childhood. The so-called others around me considered me a problem and a challenge because of my direct reactions and answers. They all tried to do whatever bad they could to harm me and avoid me. But I opened my eyes long before these tricks of ambiguous, narrow-minded, and above all hypocritical world. This is simply a refusal to validate a broken system (SPEC - socio-politic-economic-cultural-civil).

On the other hand, my perspective moves from the personal ("they don't understand me") to the radically analytical ("the structure they operate within is a fabricated and flawed construct"). For example, my argument is that the primary unit of society – the so-called "natural family" is not a biological or divine inevitability but a SPEC construct (Socio-Political-Economic-Cultural), a cleverly designed apparatus for social control and cohesion.

The fish out of water

I have always been a fish out of water when it comes to cultural and civil world relations and communication. I have noted the ambiguous, bigoted, petty-mindedness of conventional society. They habitually answer with cut-and-dried, non-correspondent words and abuse power and status to hide the relative facts. This uncomfortable situation regarding conventional societies, institutes, and religions made it difficult for me to establish healthy and strong relationships. But the catalytic force of my being has always carried me forward despite it all.

Now that I am an adult in every sense: in age, in intelligence, in practical life experience, and above all, having achieved what I always dreamed of from my childhood, I know what I am fundamentally.

So, for more than a week, I have been thinking for the umpteenth time again about writing what comes freely to mind but keeping the experience of the day as the foundation. In this way, I can understand myself as a cultural and civilized individual and how I move within the universal flow.

Wednesday, 3 September 2025

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

“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”.

A NEW DEFINITION OF 21ST CENTURY SLAVERY?

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.

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.

Sunday, 31 August 2025