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Shunning has been practiced in religious communities for a long time to persecute non-compliant individuals. Besides, pretty much like everything else, this too never ended by the religion of Atheism and its off-shoot secular societies. As in every other case, only the terminology has changed. It is now called cancel culture. How do you not comply with our narrative? We will cancel you. Corporate media will boycott you, you will lose your job, you will not be able to publish, your family will be targeted, you will be threatened, and you will be completely isolated. Your character and name will be damaged so severely that even the closest people will distance themselves from you. Ultimately, you will be confined to home, aka under house arrest, because going out will become so painful for you.
It is a misconception that slavery is limited to the physical buying and selling of humans. It is just one and most obvious form. But there are issues with it. It may become unacceptable in society to physically buy and sell humans. Even if it is acceptable to buy and sell humans physically, it might be limited to a particular class, race, ethnicity, or religious subclass of people. What if this is not enough for you? If you want to enslave a substantial proportion of the population if not everyone? Of course, people dying for power and control will not give up just because physical slavery is now outlawed or is very limited. They will find better and more effective ways to enslave the people under highly deceptive and misleading terminologies. If you can, with the help of like-minded influential people, build a web that will keep people trapped under your paws.
As people turned against slavery and monarchical and despotic rulers, the power brokers did not give up just like that. They quickly devised highly innovative and effective methods to keep people ignorant. The old system was given new clothing and a new look with names like Republic and Democracy. New ones, such as legislatures, cabinets, government courts, public schools, corporate media, and holy constitutions, replaced old oligarchic institutions. Essentially, the old web was maintained with new names, terminologies, and packaging. The new religious structure raised by the religion of Atheism was called the secular state. A new God was createdand he was called president or head of the state, New holy books were written and called constitutions. A whole class of apostles was created and called cabinet, legislature, and government-owned courts.
The new web of slavery is turning out to be far more powerful and effective and has much more outreach. The priesthood in it is called corporate media. The church schools are now public schools. They also took one giant step forward. It is called mandates. Even the worst despots in the past could not have even imagined it. Something that becomes an obligation for everyone, such as attending church in the past. The way mandates work is that politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, so-called experts, media gurus, and government-financed academics start playing the same music. Every newspaper that you pick up, every news magazine you read, every radio channel you listen to, every TV channel you watch, every expert that is brought on, every speech that a politician delivers tells people the exactly same thing: Sky will fall if we do not mandate this.
No dissent allowed, no questions, no concerns, no objections, no demand for evidence, no science contradicting it. If you refuse to go along, that’s your choice. You suddenly find yourself brutally targeted and isolated. Even if you have the best scientific credentials, you are suddenly labeled as anti-science because the official version is deemed the only science possible. Ironically, logic, philosophy, and science were the original weapons that turned over the monarchies and despotis and paved the way for Atheism and its off-shoot secular state. The strong argument against divine right, despots, and monarchs was that the narrative could not and must not controlled by a small group of lords and oligarchs. Every individual is born with a right to express his or her opinion, and every discussion is open to all logical arguments, philosophical reasoning, and scientific evidence.
No one can dictate what can be said and what cannot be said. Of course, there were dictators in the secular world right from the beginning who did care for and respected natural rights. However, they were still despised individuals and struggled to maintain their authority. Then came the renaissance of Socialism, originally a utopian and elitist idea that failed miserably in the sixteenth century. Karl Marx, with the help of his wealthy friend Engels, resurrected this dead ideology through his book, Das Kapitol. It was based on dialectics. The essence of dialectics is that humanity, like the universe, is on an inevitable path of political evolution—the progress of history is determined by an unending conflict between those who have and those who do not. Now and then, have-nots present an antithesis to the existing ones, and a revolution brought on by have-nots generates a new synthesis which, over time, becomes a new thesis, starting another conflict.
His fundamental idea that the government is the most oppressive institution and ultimately withers away was right on the mark. He also correctly predicted that capitalism is finally a system that will generate enough wealth for a stateless society. However, his proposed structure of a stateless society was faulty. Additionally, his path to achieving this goal was also destructive. His assumption that a stateless society would not be very productive and would run forever on the wealth generated by Capitalism was also flawed. One, stateless society could be very fruitful, and two, no matter how much wealth is generated by Capitalism, it can never be enough forever. The fundamental issue was his assumption of the structure of a stateless society. It gave way to all the other faulty components in his ideas.
An essential stage in his philosophy, on the way to stateless communes, was Socialism, or the dictatorship of the proletariat. It failed every single time, and no real progress towards stateless communes was ever made.