SLAVE
Being a slave means
not being the owner of yourself, this tale by Ambrose Bierce called
Oil
of dog talks
about a man called Boffer Bings, which was born in a different
family, his dad was a manufacturer of dog-oil, and his mom had a
studio in which she disposed of unwelcomed babies. Since boyhood
Boffer was trained in the family businesses, something that have
repercussions in his life. Knowing that is doing something wrong he
was very carefully with cops, and law in general. This fear is an
important part of the text, this fear mixed together both of Boffer’s
parents jobs. Boffer threw a baby’s corpse in the cauldron when the
dead dogs were burning something that end up creating a new and
better oil something his dad wanted a lot ago, what a big causality.
Causalities had been
the creators of many inventions and advances, advances which may be a
blessing or a misfortune, that only depends of the way the man uses
it. The problem is that the man kind isn’t prepare for such big
things because apparently their greed is bigger than their self,
bigger that their moral. When the man acts based on its greed the
uses given to the advances are the wrong ones, a mistake that shall
have big consequences for the man and everyone who surrounds him.
The greed is one of
the oldest impulses of mankind, that´s why the human history is
plagued of injustice, death and misfortunes. Since the beginning
until the end you may see how the greed creates inhumanity. It’s
incredible how greed blinds people and make them destroy its
environment. And knowing that a man’s only purpose is to finish
with its people for own benefit is the bigger act of inhumanity, act
that have been main character of human history. For example,
currently scientific advances are used against enemies. Life had
become a game in which instead of saving people the science is used
to destroy them, the one who destroys its enemy first is the winner,
something people forgot is that in this game there’s not a winner,
because at the end everyone loses something.
The beginning of
the game.
“She removed
not only superfluous and unwelcome babes to order, but went out into
the highways and byways, gathering in children of a larger growth,
and even such adults as she could entice to the oilery.”
-Oil of Dog,
Ambrose Bierce.
The game
The conversion of
their neighbors into dog-oil became, in short, the one passion of
their lives—an absorbing and overwhelming greed took possession of
their souls and served them in place of a hope in Heaven—by which,
also, they were inspired.”
Match point
“So
enterprising had they now become that a public meeting was held and
resolutions passed severely censuring them”
Greed does not have
a nationality or prefer a specific country, because country limits
are just imaginary lines created by the man, the greed is in
everybody everywhere, the only difference is made when you decide if
you want or not to live based on greed. In Colombia the greed is
found in the politic area, politicians work for own benefit instead
of working for the people which is what they are supposed to do, a
big example f greed.
As a conclusion I
may say that is true that when people act based on greed they end up
not only affecting others but also affecting their-self guarding the
tradition of mankind this way a change is not going to happen.
Sara Triana/Bogotá
D.C/Marzo, 2o16
Oil of dog-
Ambrose Bierce.
