A Foreword to the sardonic history lesson by Jerry Toner, 2014, Overlook, 216 pages

In the brief foreword to this witty look at servitude through the eyes of the most brutal form of management, Mary Beard, apparently a mainstream academic by her leanings, is appropriately reserved about praising the ancient Roman method, but does find refuge in the rationality of judging a man by the standards of his own time. She also, in an unseemly way common among the modern educated classes, rests assured that slavery is behind us, not at all seeming to conceive of The State that acts upon us via force and which lives and breaths only through what it extracts from us, as a master. Like the mass of the idiots in academia she sees The State as working for the individual rather than the individual enthralled to The State.

The victory of slave management is only achieved when the slave fancies himself free, and better yet, served by his master—and we reside there, at the end of that witless rainbow, as evidenced by this sharp broad being able to read Jerry Toner's masterful work [which I am halfway through reading] and remain clueless as to the very power structure she inhabits. I stand horrified that the learned apologist for this supposedly harsh but very mild work, still does not get it, even after reading a book that gets it good.

Mary Beard does expose herself as a person of her own age when she concludes, concerning the bogus treatise on slave management by fictional Roman fat cat, Marcus Sidonius Falx, "And Falx points the finger at us too. Do some of his insights still help us manage our own 'staff'. For are we sure that 'wage-slaves' are really so much different from 'slaves'? How different are we from the Romans?"

How does a learned person and author of numerous books see coercion in the modern workplace [which there is, in a mild form] yet stand utterly oblivious to the absolutely coercive system of government she lives under?

That, my friends, is the genesis of the feminine Hive Mind in human society.

This nice little foreword—thoughtful to an extent—is packaged in precisely the size and style calibrated to encourage the moral ciphers among us to continue the witless rush to

universal enslavement. My current estimate is that less than 1% of humans are free from systematic moral enslavement and abolition of the soul.

I recommend that readers concerned with avoiding total slave master victory read Mister Toner's book of ancient wisdom and also Ms. Beard's foreword as its mirror of modern ignorance.