Historical anti-freedom

Abstract

The great historical conquests in favor of human rights have meant, and continue to mean, the need to investigate the causes of why this struggle has been so difficult and what its main obstacles are.

And, as human rights concern determining and ensuring the basic living conditions in society that people need in order not to be victims of injustices, cruelties and other barbarities, it is important, and even necessary, to make a historic review about the times, events and organizations with authoritarian power over populations; a signal that allows at least the major and most widespread causes of the forced life forms that have most violated human rights to be thought of.

Of course, an exhaustive analysis of the subject requires enormous work by historians to place the facts. Scientists, perhaps with preference, psychologists, who analyze them with a view to obtaining, at least slightly, the root causes and also the superficial causes of brutal thought and behavior that leads to injustice, cruelty and barbarity massively.

Thinking of this human tragedy I believe that, apart from all the details and details of the subject, it is possible to point out three facts, the most prominent and widespread without requiring to be a historian. This because they have been too obvious, too intense, too tragic, too inhuman.

I am referring to slavery, considered normal and legal, from always until the first third of the nineteenth century and now illegal in most nations, although we must add that more or less, because we know that in practice slavery has not completely disappeared.

I also refer to the war that seems embedded in the minds of most of the rulers who in the land they have been, of who they are and probably of what they will be. With the aggravating fact that most of the historical events considered glorious are related to great battles and victorious wars, regardless of the pains, sufferings, disabilities, and deaths of the thousands and sometimes millions of people.

The third cause, fortunately, is no longer, alone, although it lasted seven centuries. It is the barbarity that meant the Inquisition, that kind of mental and emotional slavery, fortunately gone.