Interview: Plato on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-08-17 08:11:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Plato

How's the afterlife treating you?

How should the afterlife be treating me?

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and writer of philosophical dialogues. Along with my mentor, Socrates, and my most famous student, Aristotle, I helped create what we know as modern science, and Western philosophy.  My writings have influenced world leaders and thinkers for centuries.

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

We think the world we live in is real, but it is not.  Concepts like freedom and slavery are illusions, since we are all slaves to our lack of perception of reality.  When we are sucked in and trapped by the temporal forms of the world we see, we are unable to seek truth beyond the shadows of what we falsely believe to be reality.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

What would you think I would do to fight slavery?  What would you have me do?

Any last thoughts for our readers?

Knowledge is food for the soul.  Eat well.

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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