The imperial United States is a disaster, regardless of what the sycophants and the beneficiaries have to say, and the proof of this is that relatively wealthy people are leaving the empire to find other places to live. Other countries are also complaining about entitled imperialists running away and expecting higher standards of living at lower costs, and demanding the right to maintain imperial conditions. Almost none of these people have substantively recognized their roles in destroying the empire for those without resources, who will be forced to submit to the whims of others before our equilibrium can be recognized. In this way, comfortable people are once again proving that they do little more than make and leave messes all over the world.
Other than maintaining segregation, what was the main point of running away to the suburbs, or even continuing to “explore” other areas outside the “established” terrain? Simply put, people were forced to contend that social conditions were less than desirable, and instead of making the situation more tenable, “pioneers” ran away to start their lives somewhere else. Meanwhile, everyone else was left with the burden of improving those areas without many resources, and doing their best to make lives with less time and more intense scrutiny than those who ran away, who continued making messes where they were. The most “American” pattern of all is a tradition of leaving messes for other people to clean, while telling those people that they are responsible for all of their own problems.
Surprisingly, marginalized and impoverished people did clean up the areas where we were relegated to live, and made a point of making life not only manageable, but desirable. Trends were set and history was made, to the point of people developing communities that rivaled those of the dominant narrative. When the comfortable people saw those areas, both then and now, they made a habit of taking over areas that others have made hospitable, and demanding that the inhabitants run away somewhere else, hopefully to clean up somewhere else to take. Call it colonization or call it displacement, but all of these actions wreak of the feckless habit of tearing through reality and taking whatever seems pleasant at the time. Real people have paid, and continue to pay for this disrespectful behavior.
Most insultingly, those who benefit from the pain of others often project a blatant refusal to acknowledge accountability when confronted by wrongdoing, even with evidence. If anyone presents history, current systems, or socioeconomic inequality that they gain within the dominant narrative, they become uncontrollably aggressive. After people point out that they are becoming aggressive, they then become violent, either calling for help or enacting it themselves. Even when people leave them alone and try to establish equilibrium again without interference from emotionally immature people, they stalk those people to demand both resources and validation again. Consequently, there is no way to segregate from such individuals because they are too fixated on taking things that belongs to others, and demanding validation from the same people from which they stole.
These physical and social cycles are vicious, and ultimately unsustainable. Everyone cannot live our lives in constant fear of facts or books being placed in the faces of those who refuse to see that they have both enacted and enabled untrustworthy behavior. Nobody in the world wants to be around people who cannot take accountability for their actions and make amends, and even the planet is physically exhausted from their delusions of their “greatness.” Those who are trying to hide behind ignorance or “hurt feelings” are equally obnoxious because both are deflections. Libraries, hard drives, and web pages are filled with verified documentation of the atrocities of the dominant narrative, so the only things holding together the idea of a benevolent empire is fantasy, emotional immaturity, and violence.
Sycophants and beneficiaries need to realize this truth: What do the actions of others have to do with their refusal to remedy the problems that they created? It is absolutely irrelevant that they want to leave places they have destroyed and demand that others accommodate their “need” for comfort. At this juncture, they have a responsibility to recognize that other people’s actions do not negate their own, and remorse means correcting the issues they created. Nobody is interested in pretending that people who benefitted from the pain of others never did anything wrong. That is a crumbling delusion that will no longer be fed by people with emotional health.
Chasing A Dying Empire 