The 200 Point Safety Propaganda Conceptual Manifesto: Part 3, by Adam Lehrer
Bullet points 101 through 150 of the 200 Point Safety Propaganda Conceptual Manifesto
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101. Spartacus’ Slave Rebellion
The Matrix? Fahrenheit 451? Fuck that. The greatest Plato’s Cave allegory is a real story replete with the blood, sweat and tears of real men and women. Spartacus was a Thracian soldier loyal to the Roman Army until he deserted for mostly unknown reasons, seeing him and his wife sold into slavery in 73 A.D.. Spartacus, due to his strength and experience as a warrior, was sold to the House of Batiatus of Capua as a gladiator. One must understand the deep well of slave morality that gladiators were besieged by to truly gauge how astonishing Spartacus’ achievements were. Gladiators were led by their Roman captors to believe that they were, somehow, lucky to be slaves and to honor the gods with blood and glory in the arena. This ideological prison is what Spartacus had to overcome. He had to convince the other gladiators that they were not, in fact, lucky to die for the bloody spectacle of Roman citizens, but that they were slaves and would never amount to anything beyond being slaves. Spartacus whispered the cries of revolution into his brothers’ ears and, at around 70 A.D., Spartacus and his comrades rose up, seized the House of Batiatus, killed him, his family and their captors, and banded together to wage war on the most powerful civilization in the history of the world. I get fucking chills when I think about it.