The world’s controlled by a network of human traffickers. No great news, since today’s workers are the sub-product of what slavery was one day to this world, not that long ago.
Although one is made to believe that there were good differences between slaves and the middle age peasants not much differ their obligations to their rulers as it still does today. One could argue that the life expectancy from a person now is longer than it was from a person living 100 years ago, but also it's the time that’s demanded for one last on duty. Still, that there’s plenty more of distractions that inadvertently delivers more conformity from the people exposed to such to keep them quiet while obeying to the order of things as they are or face the consequences. The order of life is indeed dictated by our common natural needs and the needs from those that by given few machiavellian characteristics seem to have more needs than anyone else all together.
Neither servitude nor slavery ended abruptly, but it was the result of the development of techniques to make production more efficient, therefore more profitable. Both, the serves and the slaves were as part of the means of production as our contemporary technicians and specialists are now. Taking labour as a commodity, or the products from a fast paced technocratic world that still function under the same premisses as previous ancient societies that in the past have committed their livelihoods to keep the order of things the way it best served their self-appointed ruling classes.
In the past these set of rulers demanded to be taken as Gods themselves, as it was in Ancient Egypt. Then, appointees of God as it was in almost all Post-Ancient Egypt. Then, appointed by the masses of people who had their ownership transferred from the Kings to the State, the latter until now is controlled over by and for the merit of those who can afford the status quo bought by our newest God, Money.
Still, neither God, Appointee nor Money seems enough to control people. Therefore, the control of nature either by God, the Ruler or the Money have been proven to be most efficient trough managed hatred and fear.
The order of fear thy God, thy Ruler and thy Money like nothing else oder than the control one can have over other life. Hatred and fear seems to take a good toll on the psyche of the masses of people since the same people who incited the hatred are also supposed to be loved, what it's suppose to be feared also must be adored. Perhaps neither Freud could explain such neuroses that touch the life of the masses of people but his nephew, Bernays.
Many of the wonders from the Ancient World that can still be found today was done through incentive of the whip. Likewise, such method has been proven efficient in the control of the people’s passions throughout the history of humanity as it's still in our days.
Methods to inflict torture improved over time, though not enough that it stopped to inflict pain, fear and hatred. The whip as a tool to enforce popular commitment to the order has improved technically, like every good wine does. But, the whip’s function hasn’t changed over the centuries - as it produces the same principles of order today as it did in the past, fear your master.
So far, no other method of persuasion has been proven so effective than the whip. Today the whip has almost run out of fashion to become just a metaphoric question of the coffee break with the use the office moderated language, of the newsrooms off-the-record chats and as part of the folklore from SBDM clubs.
Rulers have always been made of a set of people living on relative state of leisure, but the creative sort of leisure that allowed them to develop and collect different sorts of whips as much as other methods to inflict fear on their ruled ones. To keep the order of things intact the whip still it’s always handy.
Throughout most of the history of civilisation such methods of public torture have been proven very effective to appease the masses over their total commitment with the “natural” order of things, as it does today on our commitment to “our” way of life. The Pax Romana that became the Pax Americana seems to be accommodating itself to a new multi-cultural principle that perhaps could be translated as the Pax Anglo-Saxon-Teutonic-Saudi-Israeli-Russo-Sino-Americana-Messiana.
The whip has become something else on our days, as the operator of the whip have also evolved to something other than the strong violent thug. In the search for a more humanistic approach for the use whip, now it's not necessary to have to have strong henchmen to do the dirty work, but just strong and intelligent enough to use a smart phone.
The strong henchmen from earlier days converged into a soccer mom and the small child wearing their pods while playing their street theatre around. It seems like a Fair Game to say that there's no better cover for a humanised torture method than to have a mom pulling along a baby in a stroller doing it for the sake or the order of things.
The whip haven’t been that feared as it is today. As with a relatively small set of fools with a whip on their hands have been proven effective enough to keep the order of things almost intact from ancient times to our days. As the order of the new and old world seems to be more than ever bound together by a social network of human traffickers.